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Maurice Gorham - Forty Years of Broadcasting

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David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson - The Classicial Hollywood Cinema

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Tino Balio - Grand Design

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Graeme Turner - Chapter 1 in Film as Social Practice (for a brief yet helpful introduction to the industrial structure of Hollywood)

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Toby Miller et al - Global Hollywood

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Lev Manovich - The Language of New Media

David Porter (ed.) - Internet Culture

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Brian Winston - Media, Technology and Society (Part 4)

Frank Webster - Theories of the Information Society