Book reviewed in this article:American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectivesedited by Donald Lazere.Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Cultureedited by Tania Modleski.Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Knowby E. D. Hirsch, Jr., (updated and expanded ed.)The Social Construction of Literacyedited by Jenny Cook‐Gumperz.Storytelling Kights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents by Amy Shuman.The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society by Jack Goody.Apartheid Media: Disinformation and Dissent in South Africaby John M. Phelan.Communications and the Media in Australia Australiaedited by Ted Wheelwright and Ken BuckleyDynamic Functionalism: Strategy and Tacticsby Michael A. FaiaNews as Discourseby Teun A. van DijkNews Analysis: Case Studies of International and National News in the Pressby Teun A. van DijkCommodity Aesthetics, Ideology and Cultureby Wolfgang Fritz Haug.Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s, Neo‐Realism, Hollywood, New Waveedited by Jim Hillier.Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1960s, New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating Hollywoodedited by Jim Hillier.On Communication: Essays in Understandingby Lee ThayerNew Communication Technologies and the Public Interest: Comparative Perspectives on Policy and Researchedited by Marjorie Ferguson.Communication, Development, and the Third World: The Global Politics of Informationby Robert L. Stevenson.Development Communication: Information, Agriculture, and Nutrition in the Third Worldby Robert C. Hornik.Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Ageby Paul Levinson.Personality and Interpersonal Communicationedited by James C. McCroskey and John A. Daly.Constructing the Political Spectacleby Murray Edelman.Marxism and the Interpretation of Cultureedited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg.Libel and the First Amendment: Legal History and Practice in Print and Broadcastingby Richard Labunski.What Americans Really Think: And Why Our Politicians Pay No Attentionby Barry Sussman.The Social Context ofthe Neui Information and Communication Technologies: A Bibliographyby Elia Zureik and Dianne Hartling.Managing Organizational Innovation: The Evolution from Word Processing to Office Information Systemsby Bonnie McDaniel Johnson and Ronald E. Rice.Visual Explorations of the World: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Visual Communicationedited by Martin Taureg and Jay Ruby.Inside Women's Magazinesby Janice Winship.Environmental Risk and the Press: An Exploratory Assessmentby Peter M. Sandman, David B. Sachsman, Michael R. Greenberg, and Michael Gochfeld.The Alternative Press Annual, 1986edited by Patricia J. Case.The Community of the Book: A Directoy of Selected Organizations and Programsedited by John Y. Cole.Communications Research: The Challenge of the Information Ageedited by Nancy Weatherly