Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Blacks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Film, 3rd ed. New York: Continuum, 1973, 1994 paper. 390 p.: ill.; index.

Brady, Frank. Citizen Welles: a Biography of Orson Welles. New York : Scribner, 1989. 655 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Note Includes Bibliography: p. 621-626 and index.

Douglas, Susan J. Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'N' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern. New York: Times Books, 1999. 496 p.

Emery, Michael and Edwin. The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. 7th ed. , 715 p.

Gabler, Neal. Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of the Celebrity. NY: Knopf, 1994, paper. 681 p.; illus.; bibliography notes and index. was the voice of a populist democracy and a new form of journalism in the 1920s, the Broadway gossip beat, in a jazz age hip language, "to challenge the mature, elitist, bookish culture of Lippmann... and inaugurate a new mass culture of celebrity, centered in NY and Hollywood and Washington, fixated on personalities, promulgated by the media, predicated on publicity, dedicated to the ephemeral and grounded on the principle that notoriety confers power." (p. xiii). At Bernarr MacFadden's NY Evening Graphic in the 20s, then Hearst's NY Journal in the 30s, supported FDR and the New Deal, Hoover's FBI, and Joseph McCarthy. was the narrator of ABC's Untouchables 1959-63. Burt Lancaster's Hunsecker character in the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success was based on Winchell

Gabler, Neal. Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Crown Publishers, 1988. 502 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index and Bibliography: p. 482-487

Giddins, Gary. Bing Crosby: a Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years 1903-1940. Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 2001. 728 p. , Filmography (complete): p. [607]-621 Includes bibliographical references (v. [1], p. [[671]-686) and index.

Giddins, Gary. Satchmo: the Genius of Louis Armstrong. New York: Da Capo Press, 2001. 193 p. ; 22 cm Note Original edtion produced by Toby Byron/Multiprises Discography: p. 161-174 Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and index.

Gomery, Douglas. Shared Pleasures: a History of Movie Presentation in the United States. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series Wisconsin studies in film. Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-375) and index.

Halberstam, David. The Powers That Be. New York : Dell Pub. Co., 1979. 1071 p. ; 18 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 1035-1040. focuses on the rise of 4 media empires: CBS, Time, Inc., Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, from the era of FDR after 1933 to the 1970s, including Watergate and Bernstein's pre-Watergate reputation as "the office screw-up" that was omitted from the film "All the President's Men"

Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. 448 p.: ill. (some col.); bibliography: p. 365-418 and index.

Maslowski, Peter. Armed with Cameras: the American Military Photographers of World War II. New York: Free Press, 1993. 412 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 377-391) and index.

Nelson, Al P. and Mel R. Jones. A Silent Siren Song: The Aitken Brothers' Hollywood Odyssey, 1905-1926. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000. 212 p.

Schickel, Richard. The Disney Version: the Life, Times, Art, and Commerce of Walt Disney. 3rd ed. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997, paper. 384 p.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-374) and index.

Stott, William. Documentary Expression and Thirties America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. 369 p., [64] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. Note Reprint. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1973. With new afterword Includes index Bibliography: p. [323]-361.

Williamson, J. W. Hillbillyland: what the movies did to the mountains and what the mountains did to the movies. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1995. 325 pp., illus. "the mountains in American movies and television are home to fools, monsters, clown and frontiersmen, roles and potentialities which co-exist, merge into one another, satisfy mass audience 'needs.' Singled out for special attention and praise are Burr Lancaster's The Kentuckian (1955), which takes up 'the loss of American virility' and Crocodile Dundee (1986), which brings the Crockettesque Australian hero/fool to America."