Essential Reading List

As you know, a detailed bibliography is crucial for the top grades in the coursework. What you see below are 45 of the most important books for the independent study, all of which are either in the school library or media suite. Those underlined are the twenty most important but, obviously, not all of the texts on this list will be directly relevant for you...you'll need to spend a fair amount of time searching through them (especially the contents and indexes) to find the key quotes and ideas that will impress the examiners. You must include references to quite a few of these books if you want an A or B...

ALTMAN, RICK Film/Genre

BELL, JOYCE AND RIVERS Advanced Level Media

BENNETT, JACQUI AS & A2 Media Studies

BIGNELL, JONATHAN Introduction to Television Studies, An

BLANDFORD, GRANT, HILLIER (Eds) Film Studies Dictionary, The

BORDWELL AND THOMPSON Film Art: An Introduction

BRANSTON, GILL; STAFFORD, ROY Media Student's Book, The

BURTON, GRAEME More than Meets the Eye: An Introduction to Media Studies

CASEY, CALVERT, FRENCH, LEWIS (Eds) Television Studies: The Key Concepts

CLARK, VIVIENNE; BAKER, JAMES et al Key Concepts And Skills For Media Studies

CLARK, VIVIENNE; JONES, PETER et al Complete A-Z Media And Film Studies Handbook

COOK AND BERNINK Cinema Book, The

CREEBER, GLEN Fifty Key Television Programmes

CREED, BARBARA Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis, The

DUTTON, O’SULLIVAN, RAYNER Studying the Media

FERGUSON, ROBERT Representing 'Race' : Ideology, Identity And The Media

GANTI, TEJASWINI Bollywood

GAUNTLETT, DAVID Media, Gender and Identity

HARTLEY, JOHN Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts

HAYWARD, SUSAN Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts

HOLLAND, PATRICIA Television Handbook, The

LACEY, NICK Image and Representation / Key Concepts in Media Studies

LACEY, NICK Narrative and Genre / Key Concepts in Media Studies

MACDONALD, MYRA Representing Women

MACKINNON, KENNETH Representing Men

MALIK, SARITA Representing Black Britain: Black And Asian Images On Television

MARSHALL AND WERNDLY Language of Television, The

MARTIN, ROGER TV for A Level Media Studies

MISHRA, VILJAY Bollywood Cinema

NEALE, STEVE Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

NEALE, STEVE Genre and Hollywood

NELMES, JILL (Ed) Introduction to Film Studies, An

O’SULLIVAN AND JEWKES Media Studies Reader, The

O'SULLIVAN, TIM; DUTTON, BRIAN et al Studying The Media

PHILLIPS, PATRICK Understanding Film Texts

PROBERT, DAVID AS/A-Level Media Studies: Essential Word Dictionary

RAJADHYAKSHA AND WILLEMEN Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema

RAYNER, WALL AND KRUGER (Eds) Media Studies: The Essential Resource

RAYNER, WALL, KRUGER AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction

ROBERTS AND WALLIS Introducing Film

SARDAR, ZIAUDDIN; VAN LOON, BORIN Key Concepts and Skills For Media Studies

STRINATI, DOMINIC Introduction to Studying Popular Culture, An

STRINATI, DOMINICA Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture, An

TASKER, YVONNE Working Girls : Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

WILLIAMS, KEVIN Understanding Media Theory