Here is a list of sources (very much in progress) that I reference in my blog posts or that help contextualize some of this stuff. Suggestions welcome!
Bernstein, Matthew, and Gaylyn Studlar. Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Boddy, William. New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.