Media studies

• General books
• Interviewing, writing & production skills
• Issues in media studies
• Film
• Film in New Zealand
• Bollywood

General books

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  Language and the media: classroom language activities using television, radio, newspapers, and magazines
• Media studies: an introduction by Brian Dutton
• Image and representation: key concepts in media studies by Nick Lacey
• Media matter: a practical guide to New Zealand media by John Reynolds
• Media studies: the essential introduction by Philip Rayner, Peter Wall & Stephen Kruger
• Media & censorship by Roger Thomas
• BSA quarterly - a regular publication by the Broadcasting Standards Authority = Te Mana Whanonga Kaipaho

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Interviewing, writing & production skills

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  Writing to inform and engage: the essential guide to beginning news and magazine writing by Conrad C. Fink
• The complete idiot's guide to publishing magazine articles by Sheree Bykofsky, Jennifer Basye Sander & Lynne Rominger
• Interviewing for journalists: how to research and conduct interviews you can sell by Joan Clayton
• Mastering the news media interview: how to succeed at television, radio, and print interviews by Stephen C. Rafe
• Before the story: interviewing and communication skills for journalists by George M. Killenberg & Rob Anderson
• Writing for radio: how to write plays, features and short stories that get you on air by Shaun MacLoughlin
• Broadcast journalism: techniques of radio and TV news by Andrew Boyd

For more books on this topic try these searches:

• Mass media -- Authorship
• Broadcast journalism -- Technique

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Issues in media studies

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  Coercion: why we listen to what "they" say by Douglas Rushkoff
• The media equation: how people treat computers, television and news media like real people and places by Byron Reeves & Clifford Nass
• Television, globalization and cultural identities by Chris Barker
• Media virus!: hidden agendas in popular culture by Douglas Rushkoff
• Media effects and beyond: culture, socialization and lifestyles edited by Karl Erik Rosengren
• Turning it on: a reader in women and the media selection & editorial matter by Helen Baehr & Ann Gray
• Violence and the media by Cynthia Carter
• War, lies & videotape: how media monopoly stifles the truth edited by Lenora Foerstel
• ANZACS, the media and the Great War by John F. Williams
• Compassion fatigue: how the media sell disease, famine, war, and death by Susan D. Moeller

For more books on this topic try these searches:

• Mass media -- Influence
• Women in mass media
• Violence in mass media
• Mass media -- Political aspects
• Journalism -- Objectivity
• Television broadcasting of news
• Broadcast journalism
• Maori -- Mass media

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Film

• How to read a film: the world of movies, media, and multimedia: language, history, theory by James Monaco

For more books on this topic try these searches:

• Motion pictures
• Film criticism

Film in New Zealand

• From the Depot-Takirua: some essays on film and theatre in Aotearoa-New Zealand by Peter Cleave
• Film in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Jonathan Dennis & Jan Bieringa
• Shadows on the wall: a study of seven New Zealand feature films by Barbara Cairns & Helen Martin
• Cinema of unease: a personal journey by Sam Neill  - on video

For more books on this topic try these searches:

• Jane Campion
• Peter Jackson
• Motion picture industry -- New Zealand

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Bollywood

• Motion picture industry -- India
• Motion pictures -- India

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