Encyclopedias and the cult of entertainment

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-138

  Rettig, James ^a  

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References (17)

1. http://www.state.pa.us/
2. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Viking, 1985), 8.
3. Ibid., 145.
4. John Updike, Brazil (New York: Knopf, 1994), 100.
5. Richard A. Lanham, "A Computer-Based Harvard Red Book: General Education in the Digital Age," in Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning, and Research, ed. Lawrence Dowler (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997), 153.
6. Richard Wolkomir, "Vegas Meets La-la Land," Smithsonian 26 (Oct. 1995): 51.
7. Ibid., 55.
8. Ibid., 57-58.
9. Michelle Singletary and Spencer S. Hsu, "Disney Says Va. Park Will Be Serious Fun; America's Exhibits Won't Sugarcoat History," Washington Post, Nov. 12, 1993.
10. The Truman Show (Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1998) motion picture. For additional information, see the film's Web site at: http://www.truman-show.com/
11. http://www.vcot.com
12. Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994), 194.
13. Ibid., 139.
14. Lanham, 165.
15. "Phony Journalism," National Public Radio Morning Edition, (June 19, 1998) RealAudio file, http://www.npr.org/programs/ morning/archives/1998/980619. me.html
16. Dan Simmons, Hyperion (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), 131.
17. John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies (New York: Knopf, 1996), 101.