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• Life Against Death: MASH
• The Andy Griffith Show
• Andy Griffith and Comedy's Healers
• Blue's Clues
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Exiled in Paradise: Gilligan's Island
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• Comedy's Fools: I Love Lucy
• Than It Is Given Credit For
• The Psychology of Sitcoms
• MASH as a Vision of the Human Condition
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• What is Transparency?
• Culture, Society, Self & Nature
• Popular Fiction and the Quest for Freedom
• Transparency & Truthtelling
• The Meaning of Mad Max
• Deconstruction, Transparency, & Salvage
• The Real Self in a Virtual World
• The Psychoanalytic Geography of Stories
• Contemporary Storytelling: Tales of Life Way After the Fall
• How Andrew Cunanan Became a UFO
• The Human Pixel Who Wouldn't
• Culture of Deception
• Orson Welles and the Invasion from Mars
• Letter To Salon Magazine
• The Fake Heaven of Claritin
• http://www.transparencynow.com/truman.htm
• http://www.transparencynow.com/culture.htm
• Power & Appearances
• Disney, News, Politics and the Academy
• How Stories Depict the Vastness of Time
• Ten Propositions About Food & Psychology
• Sugar, Junk Food and Mental Illness: Overview
• Explaining the Cause of Mental Illness: Essay
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• http://www.transparencynow.com/tableapoc.htm
• Salvaging the Future: Mad Max  Beyond Thunderdome
• Logan's Run
• Brief Takes: The Machine Stops; The City and the Stars; Demolition Man
• Simulation as a Symbol of Regression and Dreams
• Star Trek and the New Myth of the Machine
• Holocaust as Metaphor
• Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Science Fiction
• http://www.transparencynow.com/tablesim.htm
• Faking It: 1992 Boston Globe
• Simulation and the Creation of a Human World
• Story-Based Simulations
• The New Culture War 
• Nature, Representation and Misrepresentation
• Virtual Realities: Then and Now
• Daniel Boorstin
• Umberto Eco
• Artificial  Rain Forests: Worlds in a Bottle
• Disney's Distorted Mirror: Animal Kingdom
• Cities of Simulation: Las Vegas
• Cities of Simulation: Disney World
• Advertising and the Invention of Postmodernity
• Narcissus and Necessity: Why Are We
• A Culture Based on Fantasy and Acting Out
• The Mastery of Life
• The Emergence of Recreational Evil
• Mr. Paybak: Revenge as Entertainment
• The Automated Environment
• Modernism: Surface and Depth
• Sherry Turkle: Surface and More Surface
• Faustian Society
• Stanislaw Lem and the Future of Illusion
• http://transparencynow.com/overview/viewtable.htm
• Preface: the History of These Ideas
• Society as a Simulation Machine
• Symbolic Arenas
• Simulation Confusion & the Construction of Reality
• Fake Utopias
• Artificial Landscapes
• Cyber-Hedonism & Recreational Evil
• Faustian Society
• Progress & Regress; Engulfment & Escape
• Simulation and the Self
• The Journey This Site Would Take You On
• http://transparencynow.com/self/selftable.htm
• Overview
• Introduction
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• Groundhog Day
• The Electric Horseman
• Dr. Quinn as Moral Fiction
• Westerns
• http://transparencynow.com/news/contents.htm
• Principles of Media Criticism
• Polemical Introduction
• The Basic Model
• Narrative and Action
• The Goals of the Book
• The Mechanics of Image Construction
• A Schematic Model of Image Construction
• The Dynamics of Action
• Elements of The Order of Values
• The Migration of News Images
• Ideology, Image Manipulation and News
• Being Right: The Hidden Ideology of News
• The Elements of a Game Model
• Schematics of Action
• More on Image
• Image and the Unconscious
•  Power
• A Science of Image
• News Form
• News Content
• Schemas and Stories
• This Week With David Brinkley
• Sadism, Insensitivity, and Grandiosity
• Transference and News
• Narcissism, Association and Taboo
• Psychoanalysis and Exchange Theory
• How Discrediting Attacks are Disguised
• The Reasons for Action
• The Power Structure of Newsrooms
• The Ethical Reporter
• 1. More on Schemas
• 2. An Alternative Table of Contents
• 3. The Nature of Social Interaction:
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