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Media Studies
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 Cartooning for Suffrage
by Elisabeth Israels Perry & Alice Sheppard
The Comic-Stripped American: What Dick Tracy, Blondie, Daddy Warbucks
and Charlie Brown Tell Us about Ourselves
by Arthur Asa Berger
The Art of the Funnies : An Aesthetic History
by Robert C. Harvey
 Cultural Argument and Organizational Constraint in the Comic Book Industry
by Matthew Paul McAllister, in Journal of Communication
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Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History
by Tony Barta
Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV
by Alan Rosenthal
Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950
by Andrea S. Walsh
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Children's Attitudes toward Violence on Television
by Kirstin J. Hough & Philip G. Erwin, in Journal of Psychology
Television and Children: Program Evaluation, Comprehension, and Impact
by Brian R. Clifford & Barie Gunter
Considering Policies to Protect Children from TV Violence
by W. James Potter & Ron Warren, in Journal of Communication
Television, Imagination, and Aggression: A Study of Preschoolers
by Jerome L. Singer & Dorothy G. Singer
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Propaganda for War: The Campaign against American Neutrality, 1914-1917
by H. C. Peterson
Public Opinion and the Spanish-American War: A Study in War Propaganda
by Marcus M. Wilkerson
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
by Paul Fussell
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Native Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press
by Mary Anne Weston
Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1994
by Sherry L. Smith
Shape-Shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction
by Andrew MacDonald & Maryann Sheridan
Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture
by S. Elizabeth Bird
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Seeing Spots: A Functional Analysis of Presidential
Television Advertisements, 1952-1996
by William L. Benoit
Beyond the Politics of Disappointment? American Elections, 1980-1998
by Wilson Carey McWilliams
Sound Bite News: Television Coverage of Elections, 1968-1988
by Daniel C. Hallin, in Journal of Communication
The Presidential Election of 1996: Clinton's Incumbency and Television
by E. D. Dover
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Banned in the Media: A Reference Guide to Censorship in the Press, Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and the Internet
by Herbert N. Foerstel
An American Paradox: Censorship in a Nation of Free Speech
by Patrick Garry
Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music
by Sandra Dauidson & Betty Houchin Winfield
Press and Speech Freedoms in the World, from Antiquity until 1998: A Chronology
by Louis Edward Ingelhart
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