Visual Rhetoric
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Visual images, artifacts, and performances play a powerful part in shaping U.S. culture. To understand the dynamics of public persuasion, students must understand this "visual rhetoric." This rich anthology contains 20 exemplary studies of visual rhetoric, exploring an array of visual communication forms, from photographs, prints, television documentary, and film to stamps, advertisements, and tattoos.
In material original to this volume, editors Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, and Diane S. Hope present a critical perspective that links visuality and rhetoric, locates the study of visual rhetoric within the disciplinary framework of communication, and explores the role of the visual in the cultural space of the United States.
Enhanced with these critical editorial perspectives, Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture provides a conceptual framework for students to understand and reflect on the role of visual communication in the cultural and public sphere of the United States.
Key Features and Benefits
- Five broad pairs of rhetorical action—performing and seeing; remembering and memorializing; confronting and resisting; commodifying and consuming; governing and authorizing—introduce students to the ways visual images and artifacts become powerful tools of persuasion
- Each section opens with substantive editorial commentary to provide readers with a clear conceptual framework for understanding the rhetorical action in question, and closes with discussion questions to encourage reflection among the essays
- The collection includes a range of media, cultures, and time periods; covers a wide range of scholarly approaches and methods of handling primary materials; and attends to issues of gender, race, sexuality and class
- Contributors include: Thomas Benson; Barbara Biesecker; Carole Blair; Dan Brouwer; Dana Cloud; Kevin Michael DeLuca; Anne Teresa Demo; Janis L. Edwards; Keith V. Erickson; Cara A. Finnegan; Bruce Gronbeck; Robert Hariman; Christine Harold; Ekaterina Haskins; Diane S. Hope; Judith Lancioni; Margaret R. LaWare; John Louis Lucaites; Neil Michel; Charles E. Morris III; Lester C. Olson; Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Ronald Shields; John M. Sloop; Nathan Stormer; Reginald Twigg and Carol K. Winkler
"This book significantly advances theory and method in the study of visual rhetoric through its comprehensive approach and wise separations of key conceptual components." —Julianne H. Newton, University of Oregon
Contents
Foreword: Visual Rhetorical Studies: Traces of Power Through Time and Space
Foreword: Visual Rhetorical Studies: Traces of Power Through Time and Space
Visual Rhetoric in Communication: Continuing Questions and Contemporary Issues
Visual Rhetoric in Communication: Continuing Questions and Contemporary Issues
I. Performing and Seeing
- 1. The Performative Dimension of Surveillance: Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives
- 2. Embodying Normal Miracles
- 3. Recognizing Lincoln: Image Vernaculars in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
- 4. "What Lips These Lips Have Kissed": Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing
II. Remembering and Memorializing
- 5. The Rhetoric of the Frame: Revisioning Archival Photographs in The Civil War
- 6. Representative Form and the Visual Ideograph: The Iwo Jima Image in Editorial Cartoons
- 7. Reproducing Civil Rights Tactics: The Rhetorical Performances of the Civil Rights Memorial
- 8. Remembering World War II: The Rhetoric and Politics of National Commemoration at the Turn of the 21st Century
- 9. Public Identity and Collective Memory in U.S. Iconic Photography: The Image of "Accidental Napalm"
III. Confronting and Resisting
- 10. The Precarious Visibility Politics of Self-Stigmatization: The Case of HIV/AIDS Tattoos
- 11. Encountering Visions of Aztlan: Arguments for Ethnic Pride, Community Activism and Cultural Revitalization in Chicano Murals
- 12. The Guerrilla Girls' Comic Politics of Subversion
- 13. Behold the Corpse: Violent Images and the Case of Emmett Till
IV. Commodifying and Consuming
- 14. The Force of Callas' Kiss: The 1997 Apple Advertising Campaign, "Think Different"
- 15. "Put Your Stamp on History": The USPS Commemorative Program Celebrate the Century and Postmodern Collective Memory
- 16. Memorializing Affluence in Post-War Families: Kodak's Colorama in Grand Central Terminal
V. Governing and Authorizing
- 17. Benjamin Franklin's Pictorial Representations of the British Colonies in America: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology
- 18. Presidential Rhetoric's Visual Turn: Performance Fragments and the Politics of Illusionism
- 19. Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton: Television News Practices and Image-Making in the Postmodern Age
- 20. "To Veil the Threat of Terror": Afghan Women and the Clash of Civilizations in the Imagery of the U.S. War on Terrorism
- Afterword: Look, Rhetoric!
Description
Visual images, artifacts, and performances play a powerful part in shaping U.S. culture. To understand the dynamics of public persuasion, students must understand this "visual rhetoric." This rich anthology contains 20 exemplary studies of visual rhetoric, exploring an array of visual communication forms, from photographs, prints, television documentary, and film to stamps, advertisements, and tattoos.
In material original to this volume, editors Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, and Diane S. Hope present a critical perspective that links visuality and rhetoric, locates the study of visual rhetoric within the disciplinary framework of communication, and explores the role of the visual in the cultural space of the United States.
Enhanced with these critical editorial perspectives, Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture provides a conceptual framework for students to understand and reflect on the role of visual communication in the cultural and public sphere of the United States.
Key Features and Benefits
- Five broad pairs of rhetorical action—performing and seeing; remembering and memorializing; confronting and resisting; commodifying and consuming; governing and authorizing—introduce students to the ways visual images and artifacts become powerful tools of persuasion
- Each section opens with substantive editorial commentary to provide readers with a clear conceptual framework for understanding the rhetorical action in question, and closes with discussion questions to encourage reflection among the essays
- The collection includes a range of media, cultures, and time periods; covers a wide range of scholarly approaches and methods of handling primary materials; and attends to issues of gender, race, sexuality and class
- Contributors include: Thomas Benson; Barbara Biesecker; Carole Blair; Dan Brouwer; Dana Cloud; Kevin Michael DeLuca; Anne Teresa Demo; Janis L. Edwards; Keith V. Erickson; Cara A. Finnegan; Bruce Gronbeck; Robert Hariman; Christine Harold; Ekaterina Haskins; Diane S. Hope; Judith Lancioni; Margaret R. LaWare; John Louis Lucaites; Neil Michel; Charles E. Morris III; Lester C. Olson; Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Ronald Shields; John M. Sloop; Nathan Stormer; Reginald Twigg and Carol K. Winkler
"This book significantly advances theory and method in the study of visual rhetoric through its comprehensive approach and wise separations of key conceptual components." —Julianne H. Newton, University of Oregon
Contents
Foreword: Visual Rhetorical Studies: Traces of Power Through Time and Space
Foreword: Visual Rhetorical Studies: Traces of Power Through Time and Space
Visual Rhetoric in Communication: Continuing Questions and Contemporary Issues
Visual Rhetoric in Communication: Continuing Questions and Contemporary Issues
I. Performing and Seeing
- 1. The Performative Dimension of Surveillance: Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives
- 2. Embodying Normal Miracles
- 3. Recognizing Lincoln: Image Vernaculars in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
- 4. "What Lips These Lips Have Kissed": Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing
II. Remembering and Memorializing
- 5. The Rhetoric of the Frame: Revisioning Archival Photographs in The Civil War
- 6. Representative Form and the Visual Ideograph: The Iwo Jima Image in Editorial Cartoons
- 7. Reproducing Civil Rights Tactics: The Rhetorical Performances of the Civil Rights Memorial
- 8. Remembering World War II: The Rhetoric and Politics of National Commemoration at the Turn of the 21st Century
- 9. Public Identity and Collective Memory in U.S. Iconic Photography: The Image of "Accidental Napalm"
III. Confronting and Resisting
- 10. The Precarious Visibility Politics of Self-Stigmatization: The Case of HIV/AIDS Tattoos
- 11. Encountering Visions of Aztlan: Arguments for Ethnic Pride, Community Activism and Cultural Revitalization in Chicano Murals
- 12. The Guerrilla Girls' Comic Politics of Subversion
- 13. Behold the Corpse: Violent Images and the Case of Emmett Till
IV. Commodifying and Consuming
- 14. The Force of Callas' Kiss: The 1997 Apple Advertising Campaign, "Think Different"
- 15. "Put Your Stamp on History": The USPS Commemorative Program Celebrate the Century and Postmodern Collective Memory
- 16. Memorializing Affluence in Post-War Families: Kodak's Colorama in Grand Central Terminal
V. Governing and Authorizing
- 17. Benjamin Franklin's Pictorial Representations of the British Colonies in America: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology
- 18. Presidential Rhetoric's Visual Turn: Performance Fragments and the Politics of Illusionism
- 19. Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton: Television News Practices and Image-Making in the Postmodern Age
- 20. "To Veil the Threat of Terror": Afghan Women and the Clash of Civilizations in the Imagery of the U.S. War on Terrorism
- Afterword: Look, Rhetoric!
Visual Rhetoric
A Reader in Communication and American Culture
March 2008 | 464 pages | Sage US
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Visual images, artifacts, and performances play a powerful part in shaping U.S. culture. To understand the dynamics of public persuasion, students must understand this "visual rhetoric." This rich anthology contains 20 exemplary studies of visual rhetoric, exploring an array of visual communication forms, from photographs, prints, television documentary, and film to stamps, advertisements, and tattoos.
In material original to this volume, editors Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, and Diane S. Hope present a critical perspective that links visuality and rhetoric, locates the study of visual rhetoric within the disciplinary framework of communication, and explores the role of the visual in the cultural space of the United States.
Enhanced with these critical editorial perspectives, Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture provides a conceptual framework for students to understand and reflect on the role of visual communication in the cultural and public sphere of the United States.
Key Features and Benefits
- Five broad pairs of rhetorical action—performing and seeing; remembering and memorializing; confronting and resisting; commodifying and consuming; governing and authorizing—introduce students to the ways visual images and artifacts become powerful tools of persuasion
- Each section opens with substantive editorial commentary to provide readers with a clear conceptual framework for understanding the rhetorical action in question, and closes with discussion questions to encourage reflection among the essays
- The collection includes a range of media, cultures, and time periods; covers a wide range of scholarly approaches and methods of handling primary materials; and attends to issues of gender, race, sexuality and class
- Contributors include: Thomas Benson; Barbara Biesecker; Carole Blair; Dan Brouwer; Dana Cloud; Kevin Michael DeLuca; Anne Teresa Demo; Janis L. Edwards; Keith V. Erickson; Cara A. Finnegan; Bruce Gronbeck; Robert Hariman; Christine Harold; Ekaterina Haskins; Diane S. Hope; Judith Lancioni; Margaret R. LaWare; John Louis Lucaites; Neil Michel; Charles E. Morris III; Lester C. Olson; Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Ronald Shields; John M. Sloop; Nathan Stormer; Reginald Twigg and Carol K. Winkler
"This book significantly advances theory and method in the study of visual rhetoric through its comprehensive approach and wise separations of key conceptual components." —Julianne H. Newton, University of Oregon
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword: Visual Rhetorical Studies: Traces of Power Through Time and Space
- Visual Rhetoric in Communication: Continuing Questions and Contemporary Issues
- I. Performing and Seeing
- 1. The Performative Dimension of Surveillance: Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives
- 2. Embodying Normal Miracles
- 3. Recognizing Lincoln: Image Vernaculars in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
- 4. "What Lips These Lips Have Kissed": Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing
- II. Remembering and Memorializing
- 5. The Rhetoric of the Frame: Revisioning Archival Photographs in The Civil War
- 6. Representative Form and the Visual Ideograph: The Iwo Jima Image in Editorial Cartoons
- 7. Reproducing Civil Rights Tactics: The Rhetorical Performances of the Civil Rights Memorial
- 8. Remembering World War II: The Rhetoric and Politics of National Commemoration at the Turn of the 21st Century
- 9. Public Identity and Collective Memory in U.S. Iconic Photography: The Image of "Accidental Napalm"
- III. Confronting and Resisting
- 10. The Precarious Visibility Politics of Self-Stigmatization: The Case of HIV/AIDS Tattoos
- 11. Encountering Visions of Aztlan: Arguments for Ethnic Pride, Community Activism and Cultural Revitalization in Chicano Murals
- 12. The Guerrilla Girls' Comic Politics of Subversion
- 13. Behold the Corpse: Violent Images and the Case of Emmett Till
- IV. Commodifying and Consuming
- 14. The Force of Callas' Kiss: The 1997 Apple Advertising Campaign, "Think Different"
- 15. "Put Your Stamp on History": The USPS Commemorative Program Celebrate the Century and Postmodern Collective Memory
- 16. Memorializing Affluence in Post-War Families: Kodak's Colorama in Grand Central Terminal
- V. Governing and Authorizing
- 17. Benjamin Franklin's Pictorial Representations of the British Colonies in America: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology
- 18. Presidential Rhetoric's Visual Turn: Performance Fragments and the Politics of Illusionism
- 19. Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton: Television News Practices and Image-Making in the Postmodern Age
- 20. "To Veil the Threat of Terror": Afghan Women and the Clash of Civilizations in the Imagery of the U.S. War on Terrorism
- Afterword: Look, Rhetoric!