Bibliography

Some books and articles listed make light reading but cover some points well and so are included. Others are currently used in media courses. The ISBN number is given (if known) to assist buyers, and sometimes a Monash University Main Library call slip number which should be similar in any library.


Please contact the office if you feel some items could be updated or excluded, or others added. (Several are out of date but may give an historical perspective).

  1. Books & Articles referring to the ABC in particular

  2. Books or articles by or about people whose careers are associated with the ABC. Also, histories of particular programs or programming

  3. Books, articles or handbooks dealing with media issues in general

  4. The effects of the digital era: the Internet, HDTV (High Definition Television), Satellite and Cable TV

1. Books & Articles referring to the ABC in particular

  Public Broadcasting: New Frontiers? Futures Paper: Directions for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, A Swinburne University Research Report for Friends of the ABC, Media & Telecommunications Centre, July 1994.
  Review of National Broadcasting Policy, Discussion Paper - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Department of Transport and Communications, Canberra: AGPS, February 1988.
  Role of a National Broadcaster, Sydney: Corporate Relations Department, ABC, July 1985.
Aarons, M. 'Spectre of ABC privatisation', News & Views, Sydney: Friends of the ABC (NSW), V.4, No. 1, Summer 1989:5-6.
Armstrong, M. 'The ABC is integral to Australia', Australian Financial Review, 14 July, 1993. ['The ABC ... must remain strong as the world gets ready to dump its program output directly into Australian households']
Craik, J. & Davis, G. 'Why pay TV? The ABC in the 1990s', Media Information Australia, No. 66, Nov. 1992:36-42.
Cunningham, S. & Ritchie, J. 'An Ersatz Asian Nation?', Media Information Australia, No. 71, Feb 1994, pp.46-54. [The ABC in Asia - national journalistic values to be compromised?]
Davis, G. Breaking Up the ABC, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988.
Fraser, M. & O'Reilly, J., (eds.) Save Our ABC, South Melbourne: Hyland House, 1996. ISBN 1 875657 99 1 [ABC Shop & FABC]
Inglis, K. S. This is the ABC, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1983.
McQueen, H. 'The Coca-Colinisation of the ABC?', 24 Hours, July 1992:36-9. [Impact of new commercial forces on the ABC]
Mansfield, R.(Bob), The Challenge of a Better ABC, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1997.
Molomby, T. Is There a Moderate on the Roof?, Port Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1991.
Semmler, C. The ABC - Aunt Sally and Sacred Cow, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1981.
Simper, E. 'Watchdog ABC must be ad-free', The Australian, 17-18th March, 1990, Weekend p.3.
Somervaille, R. 'Issues confronting the ABC: Australian Broadcasting Corporation', in ANZAAS Congress Papers, No.58, 1988:paper 449, 1-13.
Wells, L., (ed.) It's Our ABC, North Sydney: Lyell Wells & Assoc., 1993. ISBN 0 646 13345 4
Whitehead, G. Inside the ABC, Ringwood: Penguin, 1988.
Williams, R.,

Normal Service Won't be Resumed, St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1996. ISBN 1 86448 249 4 [ABC Shop]

Dempster, Q.

Death Struggle, 2000

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2. Books or articles by or about people whose careers are associated with the ABC. Also, histories of particular programs or programming

Bowden, T., One Crowded Hour: Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman 1934 - 1985, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1987. ISBN 0 207 18763 [ABC Shop]
Dempster, Q., Whistleblowers,, Sydney: ABC Books, 1997. ISBN 0 7333 0504 0 [ABC Shop]
Lane, R., The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama 1923 - 1960,, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1994. ISBN 0 522 84556 8 [ABC Shop]
Littlemore, S., The Media and Me, Sydney: ABC Books, 1996. [ABC Shop]
Masters, C., Inside Story, Pymble: Angus & Robertson, 1992.
Olle, A. & Lyneham, P.,

Andrew Olle, 1947 - 1995: A Tribute, Sydney: UNSW Press, 1996. ISBN 0 86840 255 9 [ABC Shop]

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3. Books, articles or handbooks dealing with media issues in general

  Oz Content Vols 1,2,3 & 4, Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 1991. ISBN 0 642 16124 0 [Monash Lib.: 384.55443]
  Public Service Broadcasters Around the World, British Broadcasting Corporation, A McKinsey & Co Report for the BBC, April 1993, 27 pages.
Barr, T. Electronic Estate:New Communications Media and Australia, Ringwood: Penguin, 1985. ISBN 0 14 008006 6 [Monash Lib.: 384.0094 B268E]
Bowman, D. The Captive Press, Ringwood: Penguin, 1988. ISBN 0 14 008229 8
Cunningham, S. & Turner, G., (eds.) The Media in Australia: Industries, Texts, Audiences., 2nd edn, St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1997. ISBN 1 86448 2737
Etzioni-Halvey, E. National Broadcasting Under Siege, A Comparative Study of Australia, Britain, Israel and West Germany, London: Macmillan Press, 1987.
Fiske, J. Television Culture, London: Routledge, 1987. ISBN 0 415 03934 7
Gurevitch, M., Bennett, T., Curran, J. & Woolacott, J. (eds.) Culture, Society and the Media, London: Routledge, 1982. ISBN 0 415 02789 6
Hall, S. Supertoy: 20 Years of Australian Television, Melbourne: Sun Books, 1976. ISBN 0 7251 0235 7
Head, S. World Broadcasting Systems, California: Wadsworth Pub., 1985.
Hulteng, J.L., & Nelson, R.P. The Forth Estate, 2nd edn, An Informal Appraisal of the News and Opinion Media, New York: Harper & Row, 1983. ISBN 0 06 042991 7
Jacka, E. Dr. Remapping the Australian Television System, Working Paper 1993/2, Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (CIRCIT), South Melbourne, June 1993.
Kafcaloudes, P. ABC All-Media Court Reporting Handbook for Broadcast and Print Journalists and Media Students, Crows Nest: ABC Enterprises, 1991. ISBN 0 7333 0163 0 [ABC Shop]
Kippax, S. & Murray, J.P. Small Screen, Big Business, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979. ISBN 0 207 14424 9
Kuhn, R., (ed.) The Politics of Broadcasting, Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985.
MacCallum, M., (ed.) Ten Years of Television, Melbourne: Sun Books, 1968.
MacGuinness, P.P. The Media Crisis in Australia: Ownership of the Media and Democracy, Melbourne: Schwartz & Wilkinson, 1990. [Is the plethora of supposedly public-interest groups more concerned with their own objectives?]
McQueen, H. Australia's Media Monopolies, Camberwell: Widescope International, 1978. ISBN 086932 029 7
Masterton, M. & Patching, R. Now The News in Detail, A Guide to Broadcast Journalism in Australia, Victoria: Deacon University Press, 1990. ISBN 0 7300 1441 X
Mathews, I. How to Use the Media in Australia, Ringwood: Penguin, 1991. ISBN 0 14 014467 6
Moran, A. Stay Tuned, North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992. ISBN 1 86373 177 6 [Monash Lib.: 384.540994 M829S]
Negrine, R.M. Satellite Broadcasting, The Politics and Implications of the New Media, London: Routledge, 1990 Reprint.
Postman, N. Amusing Ourselves to Death, Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, London: Methuen, 1985. ISBN 0 413 40440 4 [Was it Aldous Huxley and not George Orwell who had a vision of the future?]
Postman, N. 'Remembering the Golden Age'[of television writing] in Conscientious Objections, New York: Vintage Books, 1988. ISBN 0 679 73421 X
Postman, N. 'The News' in Conscientious Objections, New York: Vintage Books, 1988. ISBN 0 679 73421 X
Powers, R. The Beast, The Eunuch and the Glass-eyed Child, New York: Doubleday, 1990. ISBN 0 385 41821 3
Powers, R. The Newscasters, New York: St Martin's Press, 1978. ISBN 0 312 57208 5 [Monash Lib.: 384.5540973 P888N]
Sinclair, J., Jacka, E. & Cunningham, S. (eds.) New Patterns in Global Television, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. ISBN 0 19 871123 9
Whale, J. The Half-Shut Eye: Television and Politics, London: MacMillan, 1969.
Windshuttle, K.

The Media, Ringwood: Penguin, 1984. ISBN 0 1400 6848 1

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4. The effects of the digital era: the Internet, HDTV (High Definition Television), Satellite and Cable TV

Birkerts, S. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, London: Faber & Faber, 1996. ISBN 0 571 19045 6
Green, J. O. The New Age of Communications, St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1997. ISBN 1 86448 538 8 [ABC Shop][What can we expect from the explosion of digital networks? What will society be like at the crossroads of communications technologies?]
Reinecke, I. Micro Invaders: How the New World of Technology Works Ringwood: Penguin, 1982. ISBN 0 1400 5976 8
Reinecke, I. 'Satellite Broadcasting in Australia' pp.196-215 in Satellite Broadcasting: the Politics and Implications of the New Media, 1988.
Williams, R.

Television: Technology & Cultural Form, London: Fontana/Collins, 1974. ISBN 0 00 633571 3

 

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