In this section you'll find a selection of Canadian books for media educators, as well as featured works by international authors. Unless otherwise noted, these books can be ordered online through TheatreBooks or the Center For Media Literacy.
Books to Help You Get Started
Assessing Media Work: Authentic Assessment in Media Education
Media Literacy Resource Guide
Screening Images: Ideas for Media Education
Textbooks
Literature and Media 10 (Secondary)
Literature and Media 11 (Secondary)
Mass Media and Popular Culture (Secondary)
Media: Images and Issues (Secondary)
Media in Perspective (Secondary)
Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communications (Secondary)
Popular Culture: The Issues Collection (Middle School/Secondary)
Television and Society (Secondary)
Teaching Guides
Focus on Media: Practical Units for Classrooms
Healthy Relationships Violence-Prevention Curriculum
Making Video in Your Classroom: A Production Primer
Media Scenes and Class Acts
Media Sense
Media Works
Responding to Media Violence: Starting Points for Classroom Practice
Take a Closer Look: A Practical Guide to Exploring Issues of Media Violence in the Intermediate Classroom
The Ultimate Guide to Classroom Publishing
TV Power! ...The Game
The TV Book: Talking Back to Your TV
Think TV: Resources for Everyday Thinking
Understanding Movies: The Canadian Edition
Video in Focus: A Guide to Shooting and Producing Video
Who's Calling the Shots: How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination with War Play and War Toys
General Books about Media and Media Issues
Canadian Identity
Mondo Canuck: An Encyclopedia of Canadian Pop Culture
Souvenir of Canada
Children and the Media
Honey, We Lost the Kids
Kid Culture: Children and Adults and Popular Culture
Children and Marketing
Kidfluence: Why Kids Today Mean Big Business
In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You
Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know
Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV Marketing
Commercialization in Schools
Class Warfare
No More Teachers, No More Books
YNN and the Commercial Carpet-Bombing of the Classroom
Consumerism
Culture Jam
Globalization
Challenging McWorld
Global Showdown: How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
Imagine Democracy
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream
Internet
Cyberlaw Canada
Freedom Of Expression And New Communication Technologies
Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Media Studies/Communications
Communications in Canadian Society
Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
Finding God in the Dark: Taking the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius to the Movies
Media Madness: An Insider's Guide to Media
Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media
The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture
News
Guide to the Canadian News Media
The Missing News: Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Trivia Pursuit: How Showbiz Values are Corrupting the News
Public Relations
Sultans of Sleaze: Public Relations and the Media
Representation in the Media
Islamic Peril
Un/Covering the North: News, Media and Aboriginal People
Television
Here's Looking at Us
More Than Meets the Eye: Watching Television Watching Us
Split Screen: Home Entertainment and the New Technology
Violence
Media Violence and Its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence
