Jump to content

Douglas Gomery

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jimat41 (talk | contribs) at 04:34, 5 October 2011. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

File:Douglas Gomery.jpg
Douglas Gomery

Douglas Gomery is Professor Emeritus at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland in College Park. He holds a doctorate in Communications from the University of Wisconsin and has taught mass media history at the University of Wisconsin, Northwestern University, New York University, the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands), and the University of Maryland. In 2005 he retired, and become the Resident Scholar at the Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland.

Gomery has written for the Village Voice, Modern Maturity, The Wilson Quarterly, The Baltimore Sun and other newspapers. He is a former senior researcher for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Media Studies project, and is the author of 20 books on the history and economics of the cinema and broadcasting in the United States, as well as several hundred articles. He also wrote the "Business of Broadcasting" column for the American Journalism Review (1995-2000). [1]

Bibliography

  • Patsy Cline: The Making of an Icon, published in March 2011.[2]
  • A History of Broadcasting in the United States (2008)[3]
  • Shared Pleasures: A History Of Movie Presentation In The United States (1992)[4],
  • The Hollywood Studio System (1986)[5]
    • translated into French as Hollywood : l'âge d'or des studios ISBN 9782866420499
    • translated into Spanish as Hollywood, el sistema de estudios ISBN 9788440492180
  • The Coming of Sound: A History (1975, 2005)[6] .

References

  1. ^ American Journalism Review [1]
  2. ^ Gomery, Douglas. Patsy Cline: the Making of an Icon. Bloomington, IN: Trafford Publishing, 2011 ISBN 9781426959882 WorldCat
  3. ^ Gomery, Douglas 'A History of Broadcasting in the United States Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2008. ISBN 1405122811 WorldCat
  4. ^ Gomery, Douglas. Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. ISBN 9780299132149 WorldCat
  5. ^ Gomery, Douglas. The Hollywood Studio System. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. ISBN 9780312388430WorldCat
  6. ^ Gomery, Douglas. The Coming of Sound: A History New York: Routledge, 2005. ISBN 041596900XWorldCat