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Uncovering hidden rhetorics : social issues in disguise / Barry Brummett, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2008Description: vii, 275 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781412956918 (cloth)
  • 9781412956925 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808/.042 22
LOC classification:
  • P301.5.S63 U96 2008
Contents:
Social Issues in Disguise: An Introduction to Sneaky Rhetoric / Barry Brummett -- Race in Disguise -- Ch. 1. Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning / Kristen Hoerl -- Ch. 2. Limited Representation: A Homology of Discriminatory Media Portrayals of Little People and African Americans / Lisa Glebatis Perks, Luke Winslow and Sharon Avital -- Ch. 3. Whispers of a Racial Past: Forms of White Liberal History in The Horse Whisperer / Barry Brummett -- Ch. 4. The Evil Albino: Cinematic Othering and Scapegoating of Extreme Whites / Lisa Glebatis Perks -- Morality in Disguise -- Ch. 5. Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants' Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, "Hate Crimes," and Stranger Rape / Kathryn M. Olson -- Ch. 6. Classy Morality: The Rhetoric of Joel Osteen / Luke Winslow -- Politics in Disguise -- Ch. 7. The Re-Visioned American Dream: The Wildlife Documentary Form as Conservative Nostalgia / Angela J. Aguayo -- Ch. 8. Weathering the Storm: Pirates of the Caribbean and Transnational Corporatism / E. Johanna Hartelius -- Ch. 9. A Hystery of Colonial Witchcraft: Witch-Hunt Tourism and Commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts / Roger Gatchet -- Gender and Sexuality in Disguise -- Ch. 10. Outing the Marlboro Man: Issues of Masculinity and Class Closeted in Brokeback Mountain / Teresita Garza -- Ch. 11. Making Gay Sense of the X-Men / William Earnest.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social Issues in Disguise: An Introduction to Sneaky Rhetoric / Barry Brummett -- Race in Disguise -- Ch. 1. Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning / Kristen Hoerl -- Ch. 2. Limited Representation: A Homology of Discriminatory Media Portrayals of Little People and African Americans / Lisa Glebatis Perks, Luke Winslow and Sharon Avital -- Ch. 3. Whispers of a Racial Past: Forms of White Liberal History in The Horse Whisperer / Barry Brummett -- Ch. 4. The Evil Albino: Cinematic Othering and Scapegoating of Extreme Whites / Lisa Glebatis Perks -- Morality in Disguise -- Ch. 5. Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants' Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, "Hate Crimes," and Stranger Rape / Kathryn M. Olson -- Ch. 6. Classy Morality: The Rhetoric of Joel Osteen / Luke Winslow -- Politics in Disguise -- Ch. 7. The Re-Visioned American Dream: The Wildlife Documentary Form as Conservative Nostalgia / Angela J. Aguayo -- Ch. 8. Weathering the Storm: Pirates of the Caribbean and Transnational Corporatism / E. Johanna Hartelius -- Ch. 9. A Hystery of Colonial Witchcraft: Witch-Hunt Tourism and Commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts / Roger Gatchet -- Gender and Sexuality in Disguise -- Ch. 10. Outing the Marlboro Man: Issues of Masculinity and Class Closeted in Brokeback Mountain / Teresita Garza -- Ch. 11. Making Gay Sense of the X-Men / William Earnest.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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