| Abstract: | CONSUMING ENVIRONMENTS: TELEVISION AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE by Mike Budd, Steve Craig, and Clay Steinman (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press “Communications, Media, and Culture,”; 1999— $50.00/22.00, ISBN 0–8135–2591–8 hard, 0–8135–2592–6 paper, 225 pp., photos, tables, charts, bibliography, index) PACIFICA RADIO: THE RISE OF AN ALTERNATIVE NETWORK by Matthew Lasar (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999—$34.95, ISBN 1–56639–660–3, 277 pp., photos, notes, index) COPYCAT TELEVISION: GLOBALISATION, PROGRAM FORMATS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY by Albert Moran (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1998—£14.95, paper, ISBN 1–86020–537–2, 192 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index) |
