Media Studies

Collection Overview

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Media Studies at UC Berkeley is an interdisciplinary focus on the analysis of mass media, with particular emphasis on electronic media such as television, radio, motion pictures, and evolving digital forms of communication. Emphasis is on the historical, cultural, and sociological impact of Media Studies, rather than on media production.

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Media Studies Article Databases

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Image and Sound Databases

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TV Program and Credit Databases

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Transcripts

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Lexis/Nexis Academic Includes transcripts rom a broad array of broadcast news and news programming
Simply Scripts
Drew's Script-O-Rama
PBS Includes transcripts for a large number of programs aired on PBS
Vanderbilt Television Index Holding more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming, including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events.

Media Studies: Selected Resources

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Media Studies: Selected Resources on the Web, by the Media Resources Center

Encyclopedias and Almanacs (Electronic)

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The Encyclopedia of TV Includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Media Nearly 100 articles on advertising and marketing, communications media, effects and audiences, journalism and print, politics and economics, and popular culture.

Encyclopedias and Almanacs (Print)

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Brown, Les The New York Times Encyclopedia of Television. New York: Times Books, c 1977. Main PN1992.18.B7 1977; Moffitt PN1992.18.B7 1977
Erickson, Hal Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1989. Main PN1992.55 .E671 1989; Doe Reference PN1992.55 .E671 1989
Schemering, Christopher. The Soap Opera Encyclopedia New York: Ballantine Books, 1985. Main PN1992.8.S4 S341 1985
Howes, Keith. Broadcasting It: An Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality in Film, Radio and TV in the UK, 1923-1993. London; New York: Cassell, 1993. Main PN1995.9.H55 H7 1993
International Encyclopedia of Communications. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Main (NRLF) P87.5 .I5 1989;
Lackmann, Ronald W. The Encyclopedia of American Television: Broadcast Programming Post World War II to 2000. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File, Inc., c2003. Main PN1992.18 .L3 2003
Melton, J. Gordon. Prime-time Religion: An Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1997. Doe Reference BV656 .M45 1997
Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. Doe Reference TK6544 .M84 2004
Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, c1997. Media Resources Center PN1992.18 .M874 1997; Doe Reference PN1992.18 .M874 1997

Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations (Print)

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Alexander, Pat. Broadcasting Glossary. Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre, c1994. Main TK 6634 .A39 1994
The Broadcast Communications Dictionary. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Doe Reference PN 1990.4 .D5 198; Main PN 1990.4 .D5 1989
Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. London; New York: Routledge, 2001.
Doe Reference PN 1993.45 .C75 2001 Media Resources Center: PN 1993.45 .C75 2001
Ensign, Lynne Naylor. The Complete Dictionary of Television and Film. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.Moffitt PN 1992.18 .E57 1985
Longman Dictionary of Mass Media & Communication. New York: Longman, c1982
Doe Reference P87.5 .L66 1982; Moffitt P87.5 .L66 1982
Penney, Edmund F. The Facts on File Dictionary of Film and Broadcast Terms. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, c1991. Doe Reference PN 1992 .P43 1991; Moffitt PN 1992 .P43 1991
Reed, Robert M. The Facts on File dictionary of Television, Cable, and Video. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File, c1994. Doe Reference PN 1992.18 .R44 1994
Slide, Anthony. The Television Industry: A Historical Dictionary. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991. Doe Reference PN 1992.3 .U5 .S57 1991; Main PN 1992.3 .U5 .S57 1991
Watson, James A Dictionary of Communication and Media Studies. London: Edward Arnold, 1989. Moffitt P 87.5 .W38 1989
Weiner, Richard Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications. New York : Macmillan, c1996. Doe Reference P 87.5 .W45 1996; Media Resources Center P 87.5 .W45 1996

Media Studies Videographies

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Television Programs (on video), a videography by the Media Resources Center
Documentaries on Journalism and Media Studies Topics, a videography by the Media Resources Center
Documentaries on Popular Culture, a videography by the Media Resources Center

Bibliographies

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Books/Articles about TV Comedy, a bibliography by the Media Resources Center
Books/Articles about Reality TV, a bibliography by the Media Resources Center
Books/Articles about Edward R. Murrow, a bibliography by the Media Resources Center
TV Studies Bibliographies, a full listing of TV Studies bibliographies by the Media Resources Center

Research Guides

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Media-related Primary Source Materials, both print and media primary sources
How to Cite Film and Video