Media, information & communication industries

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Charles Bean: Man, myth, legacy

Peter Stanley

Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; First World War; Press & journalism

Paperback

Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the... [more]

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Hack in a Flak Jacket: Dispatches from an Aussie Foreign Correspondent

Peter Stefanovic

Biography; Memoirs; Press & journalism

Paperback

A startlingly honest account of experiencing war and terrorism from the frontline by Peter Stefanovic, one of Australia's... [more]

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Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir

John Lyons

Biography; Memoirs; Press & journalism

Paperback

A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian... [more]

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Platform Papers #51 - Missing in Action: The ABC and Australian Screen Culture...

Kim Dalton

Society & Social Sciences; Media, information & communication industries

Paperback

This paper takes the opportunity to ask how and why a cultural institution of such significance as the ABC has been variously... [more]

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The Rules Do Not Apply

Ariel Levy

Autobiography: literary; Society & Social Sciences; Press & journalism

Paperback

The new book by New Yorker journalist and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy. [more]

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Remembering Anita Cobby

Mark Morri

Biography; Memoirs; True crime; Criminal investigation & detection; Press & journalism

Paperback

John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita. On 4 February 1986, John Cobby's life imploded.... [more]

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Abbey Road: The Best Studio in the World

Alistair Lawrence (Author)

Music; Music recording & reproduction; Biography: arts & entertainment; Music industry

Paperback

The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world with a foreword by Sir George Martin.... [more]

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We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent...

John Simpson

General & world history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Society & Social Sciences; Press & journalism

Paperback

<b>From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring... [more]

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The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing

Aaron Mannion, Emmett Stinson

Publishing industry

Paperback

This collection of essays by established and emerging scholars of Australian publishing examines the industry in the wake... [more]

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We Hope You Have Enjoyed the Show: The Story of Rock and Pop on British...

Jeff Evans

Television; Music; Rock & Pop music; Popular culture; Radio & television industry

Hardback

The first comprehensive history of rock and pop on British television, from the early days of Oh Boy and Ready Steady Go!,... [more]

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Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

Karin Wieland

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Biography: arts & entertainment; Gender studies: women; Cinema industry

Paperback

This magisterial dual biography illuminates two complex lives that began alike but were on opposite sides of the Second World... [more]

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The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking

Brooke Borel

Language: reference & general; Press & journalism

Paperback

<div> &quot;A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation 'funded a study on Jell-O wrestling... [more]

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Making Headlines

Chris Mitchell

Memoirs; Society & Social Sciences; Press & journalism

Paperback

As editor-in-chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists with the largest editorial budget... [more]

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Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television

Michelle Arrow, Jeannine Baker, Clare Monagle

Literary essays; Society & Social Sciences; TV & society; Radio & television industry

Paperback

There has been a lot happening on Australia&acirc;??s small screens. Neighbours turned 30.&nbsp;Struggle Street was accused... [more]

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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story - How a Single Man Saved the World's...

John Bloom

Business & Economics; Media, information & communication industries

Paperback

The incredible story of Iridium - the most complex satellite system ever built, the cell phone of the future and one of the... [more]

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The Shot

Gary Ramage

Individual photographers; Photographic reportage; Biography; Memoirs; Press & journalism

Paperback

The heart-stoppingly adrenalin-charged - and often dangerous - life and times of Australian war photographer, Gary Ramage.... [more]

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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother

Donald Sturrock

Biography; Biography: general; Biography: literary; Diaries, letters & journals; Media, information & communication industries

Hardback

A revealing collection of personal letters written by the iconic author to his mother details his early childhood milestones,... [more]

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Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment

Michael D. Smith (Carnegie Mellon University), Rahul Telang (Carnegie Mellon University)

Media studies; Cinema industry; Radio & television industry

Hardback

How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple... [more]

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Platform Papers #47: After the Creative Industries

Justin O'Connor

Theatre Studies; Media, information & communication industries

Paperback

In the 1990s, the &acirc;??creative industries&acirc;?? was a new concept aimed at mobilising the energies of culture in support... [more]

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Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern...

Brooke Hauser

Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment; Gender studies: women; Press & journalism

Paperback

In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown-best known for her groundbreaking 1962 manifesto Sex and the Single Girl -took over the ailing... [more]

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Britain's Forgotten Film Factory: The Story of Isleworth Studios

Ed Harris

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Cinema industry

Paperback

From the first Sherlock Holmes film to the African Queen, the only full account of this important film studio [more]

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Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

Anjan Sundaram

Memoirs; History; African history; Freedom of information & freedom of speech; Press & journalism

Paperback

The incredible story of the rise of dictatorship and the fall of open speech, as told by the last free journalists to remain... [more]

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Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2016

Language: reference & general; Writing & editing guides; Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs; Publishing industry

Paperback

The annual edition of the best-selling guide to all aspects of the media and how to write and get published, the Writers'... [more]

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How Google Works

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg

Business & Economics; Management & management techniques; Multinationals; Internet & WWW industries

Paperback

How to hire, manage, motivate, strategize and grow a business in today's disruptive world from Eric Schmidt, Google's executive... [more]

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Shopping News: Agenda Finding, What the Audience Does Before the News

John Cokley

Reportage & collected journalism; Society & Social Sciences; Press & journalism

Paperback

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