Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics
Social Issues in Disguise
Barry S. Brummett
- The University of Texas at Austin, USA
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"One of the most important benefits of this book is that Brummet and his contributors demonstrate interesting ways to read critically." —T.B. Dykeman,CHOICE
Unmasking the social and political messages found in popular culture
Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.
Key Features
Intended Audience
Interested scholars and upper-level undergraduate students enrolled in such courses as rhetoric and popular culture, contemporary rhetorical theory/criticism, media criticism, popular culture and mass communication, rhetorical methods, and so forth will find this compelling text an informative and delightful read.
Unmasking the social and political messages found in popular culture
Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.
Key Features
- Weaves meticulous analysis with popular culture throughout, keeping students and scholarly readers alike engaged and interested
- Empowers students to find hidden themes in texts of everyday life and inspires ongoing critical thinking
- Using a clear and engaging style and examples of well-known works makes formal analysis more accessible
Intended Audience
Interested scholars and upper-level undergraduate students enrolled in such courses as rhetoric and popular culture, contemporary rhetorical theory/criticism, media criticism, popular culture and mass communication, rhetorical methods, and so forth will find this compelling text an informative and delightful read.
Contents
Social Issues in Disguise: An Introduction to Sneaky Rhetoric
Social Issues in Disguise: An Introduction to Sneaky Rhetoric
Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning
Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning
Limited Representation: A Homology of Discriminatory Media Portrayals of Little People and African Americans
Limited Representation: A Homology of Discriminatory Media Portrayals of Little People and African Americans
Whispers of a Racial Past: Forms of White Liberal History in The Horse Whisperer
Whispers of a Racial Past: Forms of White Liberal History in The Horse Whisperer
The Evil Albino: Cinematic Othering and Scapegoating of Extreme Whites
The Evil Albino: Cinematic Othering and Scapegoating of Extreme Whites
Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants? Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, "Hate Crimes," and Stranger Rape
Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants? Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, "Hate Crimes," and Stranger Rape
Classy Morality: The Rhetoric of Joel Osteen
Classy Morality: The Rhetoric of Joel Osteen
The Re-Visioned American Dream: The Wildlife Documentary Form as Conservative Nostalgia
The Re-Visioned American Dream: The Wildlife Documentary Form as Conservative Nostalgia
Weathering the Storm: Pirates of the Caribbean and Transnational Corporatism
Weathering the Storm: Pirates of the Caribbean and Transnational Corporatism
A Hystery of Colonial Witchcraft: Witch-Hunt Tourism and Commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts
A Hystery of Colonial Witchcraft: Witch-Hunt Tourism and Commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts
Outing the Marlboro Man: Issues of Masculinity and Class Closeted in Brokeback Mountain
Outing the Marlboro Man: Issues of Masculinity and Class Closeted in Brokeback Mountain
Making Gay Sense of the X-Men
Making Gay Sense of the X-Men
References
References
About the Editor
About the Editor
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"One of the most important benefits of this book is that Brummet and his contributors demonstrate interesting ways to read critically." —T.B. Dykeman,CHOICE
Unmasking the social and political messages found in popular culture
Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.
Key Features
Intended Audience
Interested scholars and upper-level undergraduate students enrolled in such courses as rhetoric and popular culture, contemporary rhetorical theory/criticism, media criticism, popular culture and mass communication, rhetorical methods, and so forth will find this compelling text an informative and delightful read.
Unmasking the social and political messages found in popular culture
Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.
Key Features
- Weaves meticulous analysis with popular culture throughout, keeping students and scholarly readers alike engaged and interested
- Empowers students to find hidden themes in texts of everyday life and inspires ongoing critical thinking
- Using a clear and engaging style and examples of well-known works makes formal analysis more accessible
Intended Audience
Interested scholars and upper-level undergraduate students enrolled in such courses as rhetoric and popular culture, contemporary rhetorical theory/criticism, media criticism, popular culture and mass communication, rhetorical methods, and so forth will find this compelling text an informative and delightful read.
Contents
Social Issues in Disguise: An Introduction to Sneaky Rhetoric
Social Issues in Disguise: An Introduction to Sneaky Rhetoric
Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning
Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning
Limited Representation: A Homology of Discriminatory Media Portrayals of Little People and African Americans
Limited Representation: A Homology of Discriminatory Media Portrayals of Little People and African Americans
Whispers of a Racial Past: Forms of White Liberal History in The Horse Whisperer
Whispers of a Racial Past: Forms of White Liberal History in The Horse Whisperer
The Evil Albino: Cinematic Othering and Scapegoating of Extreme Whites
The Evil Albino: Cinematic Othering and Scapegoating of Extreme Whites
Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants? Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, "Hate Crimes," and Stranger Rape
Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants? Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, "Hate Crimes," and Stranger Rape
Classy Morality: The Rhetoric of Joel Osteen
Classy Morality: The Rhetoric of Joel Osteen
The Re-Visioned American Dream: The Wildlife Documentary Form as Conservative Nostalgia
The Re-Visioned American Dream: The Wildlife Documentary Form as Conservative Nostalgia
Weathering the Storm: Pirates of the Caribbean and Transnational Corporatism
Weathering the Storm: Pirates of the Caribbean and Transnational Corporatism
A Hystery of Colonial Witchcraft: Witch-Hunt Tourism and Commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts
A Hystery of Colonial Witchcraft: Witch-Hunt Tourism and Commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts
Outing the Marlboro Man: Issues of Masculinity and Class Closeted in Brokeback Mountain
Outing the Marlboro Man: Issues of Masculinity and Class Closeted in Brokeback Mountain
Making Gay Sense of the X-Men
Making Gay Sense of the X-Men
References
References
About the Editor
About the Editor
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
November 2007 | 288 pages | Sage US
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"One of the most important benefits of this book is that Brummet and his contributors demonstrate interesting ways to read critically." —T.B. Dykeman,CHOICE
Unmasking the social and political messages found in popular culture
Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.
Key Features
Intended Audience
Interested scholars and upper-level undergraduate students enrolled in such courses as rhetoric and popular culture, contemporary rhetorical theory/criticism, media criticism, popular culture and mass communication, rhetorical methods, and so forth will find this compelling text an informative and delightful read.
Unmasking the social and political messages found in popular culture
Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.
Key Features
- Weaves meticulous analysis with popular culture throughout, keeping students and scholarly readers alike engaged and interested
- Empowers students to find hidden themes in texts of everyday life and inspires ongoing critical thinking
- Using a clear and engaging style and examples of well-known works makes formal analysis more accessible
Intended Audience
Interested scholars and upper-level undergraduate students enrolled in such courses as rhetoric and popular culture, contemporary rhetorical theory/criticism, media criticism, popular culture and mass communication, rhetorical methods, and so forth will find this compelling text an informative and delightful read.
Table Of Contents:
- Social Issues in Disguise: An Introduction to Sneaky Rhetoric
- Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning
- Limited Representation: A Homology of Discriminatory Media Portrayals of Little People and African Americans
- Whispers of a Racial Past: Forms of White Liberal History in The Horse Whisperer
- The Evil Albino: Cinematic Othering and Scapegoating of Extreme Whites
- Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants? Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, "Hate Crimes," and Stranger Rape
- Classy Morality: The Rhetoric of Joel Osteen
- The Re-Visioned American Dream: The Wildlife Documentary Form as Conservative Nostalgia
- Weathering the Storm: Pirates of the Caribbean and Transnational Corporatism
- A Hystery of Colonial Witchcraft: Witch-Hunt Tourism and Commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts
- Outing the Marlboro Man: Issues of Masculinity and Class Closeted in Brokeback Mountain
- Making Gay Sense of the X-Men
- References
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors
- Index
- What's in a Name? Music Culture and Political Agency in the Naming of American Generations
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Dr Carie Lambert, School Of Arts Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas
An enjoyable text, linking perennial social issues with events and icons from popular culture. Definitely recommended for classes in media discourse.
Dr Aditi Bhatia, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong
"One of the most important benefits of this book is that Brummet and his contributors demonstrate interesting ways to read critically."
T.B. Dykeman, Fairfield University