The Rhetorics Of Popular Culture

Author : Barry Brummett
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506315623
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric in Popular Culture written by Barry Brummett and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a fifth edition, Rhetoric in Popular Culture provides an in-depth insight into rhetorical theory and how this can be applied to a spectrum of contemporary issues in daily life, with updated examples, recent scholarship on pop culture and new application chapters.

Author : Robert Root
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313244030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetorics of Popular Culture written by Robert Root and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anlaysis of popular culture and the uses of rhetoric as a methodological tool begins with a brief theoretical introduction. Root applies rhetorical analysis to the fields of advertising, advocacy, and entertainment, with examples that focus on the written, verbal, and visual aspects of rhetoric. ISBN 0-313-24403-0:

Author : Deanna D. Sellnow
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071851500
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture written by Deanna D. Sellnow and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can television shows like Stranger Things, popular music by performers like Taylor Swift, advertisements for products like Samuel Adams beer, and films such as The Hunger Games help us understand rhetorical theory and criticism? The Fourth Edition of The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture offers students a step-by-step introduction to rhetorical theory and criticism by focusing on the powerful role popular culture plays in persuading us as to what to believe and how to behave. In every chapter, students are introduced to rhetorical theories, presented with current examples from popular culture that relate to the theory, and guided through demonstrations about how to describe, interpret, and evaluate popular culture texts through rhetorical analysis. Authors Deanna Sellnow and Thomas Endres provide sample student essays in every chapter to demonstrate rhetorical criticism in practice. This edition’s easy-to-understand approach and range of popular culture examples help students apply rhetorical theory and criticism to their own lives and assigned work.

Author : Barry Brummett
Publisher : Studies in Rhetoric and Commun
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture written by Barry Brummett and published by Studies in Rhetoric and Commun. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main argument of this book is that most rhetorical theory defines rhetoric as its manifestations - speeches, essays, poems and so forth. It proposes that rhetoric be regarded as the social function that manages meaning - a function with many complex manifestations. The author develops a theoretical scheme to explain this concept and details principles for critical and pedagogical application of his theory. In the second part of the book, the author applies theory and critical principles to the complex and fragmented texts of popular culture - television programmes, science fiction, horror films, popular periodicals and novels - and to the arena of urban race relations.

Author : Robert Root
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetorics of Popular Culture written by Robert Root and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-03-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anlaysis of popular culture and the uses of rhetoric as a methodological tool begins with a brief theoretical introduction. Root applies rhetorical analysis to the fields of advertising, advocacy, and entertainment, with examples that focus on the written, verbal, and visual aspects of rhetoric. ISBN 0-313-24403-0:

Author : Barry S. Brummett
Publisher : Sage Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781071854273
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric in Popular Culture written by Barry S. Brummett and published by Sage Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixth Edition of Barry Brummett's Rhetoric in Popular Culture provides readers with in-depth insight into the techniques of rhetorical criticism to analyze the full spectrum of contemporary issues in popular culture. Exploring a wide range of mass media texts including advertisements, magazines, movies, television, popular music, and social media, Barry Brummett presents key rhetorical concepts and applies them with critical analysis to a variety of exciting examples drawn from today′s popular culture. Ideal for courses in rhetorical criticism, the new edition includes new and updated sample critical essays and case studies that demonstrate for readers how the critical methods discussed can be used to study the hidden rhetoric of popular culture.

Author : Helene A. Shugart
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817316078
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Camp written by Helene A. Shugart and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rhetorical power of camp in American popular culture Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality. Camp has long been aligned with gay male culture and performance. Helene Shugart and Catherine Waggoner contend that camp in the popular media—whether visual, dramatic, or musical—is equally pervasive. While aesthetic and performative in nature, the authors argue that camp—female camp in particular—is also highly political and that conventions of femininity and female sexuality are negotiated, if not always resisted, in female camp performances. The authors draw on a wide range of references and figures representative of camp, both historical and contemporary, in presenting the evolution of female camp and its negotiation of gender, political, and identity issues. Antecedents such as Joan Crawford, Wonder Woman, Marilyn Monroe, and Pam Grier are discussed as archetypes for contemporary popular culture figures—Macy Gray, Gwen Stefani, and the characters of Xena from Xena: Warrior Princess and Karen Walker from Will & Grace. Shugart and Waggoner find that these and other female camp performances are liminal, occupying a space between conformity and resistance. The result is a study that demonstrates the prevalence of camp as a historical and evolving phenomenon in popular culture, its role as a site for the rupture of conventional notions of gender and sexuality, and how camp is configured in mainstream culture and in ways that resist its being reduced to merely a style.

Author : Barry Brummett
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 141291437X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric in Popular Culture written by Barry Brummett and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joins together two vital scholarly traditions: rhetorical criticism and critical studies. This title includes material on Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist, media-centered, and culture-centered criticism. It also enables students to apply several methodologies of critical studies to the study of rhetoric.

Author : Roger Stahl
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781621311966
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Popular Culture (Revised Edition) written by Roger Stahl and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rhetoric and Popular Culture" offers a selection of readings that explores the political dimensions of popular culture. Beginning with a theoretical framework, the text moves through a number of case studies designed to explore a variety of power struggles. Many of these struggles take place on the terrain of advertising - both the struggle to leverage culture for commercial purposes and the resistant practices it inspires. Topics extending from this analysis include: institutions of cultural production; popular culture and social movements; representations of race, gender, and class; music, rebellion, and moral panics; the politics of the camera, reality TV, and voyeurism; food and everyday living spaces; representations of war; the role of intellectual property law; and others. Roger Stahl (Ph.D. Penn State University, 2004) is an Associate Professor in Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. His research interests include media and rhetoric with a particular interest in advertising, propaganda, and public relations. Dr. Stahl has devoted much of his effort to understanding the contemporary presentation of war. His recent book, "Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2010), examines how war has entered the landscape of consumerism. His work has appeared in numerous journals including "Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Quarterly Journal of Speech" and "Critical Studies in Media Communication," as well as a series of critical documentary films.

Author : Barry Brummett
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809328585
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rhetoric of Style written by Barry Brummett and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring style in a global culture In A Rhetoric of Style, Barry Brummett illustrates how style is increasingly a global system of communication as people around the world understand what it means to dress a certain way, to dance a certain way, to decorate a certain way, to speak a certain way. He locates style at the heart of popular culture and asserts that it is the basis for social life and politics in the twenty-first century. Brummett sees style as a system of signification grounded largely in image, aesthetics, and extrarational modes of thinking. He discusses three important aspects of this system—its social and commercial structuring, its political consequences, and its role as the chief rhetorical system of the modern world. He argues that aesthetics and style are merging into a major engine of the global economy and that style is becoming a way to construct individual identity, as well as social and political structures of alliance and opposition. It is through style that we stereotype or make assumptions about others’ political identities, their sexuality, their culture, and their economic standing. To facilitate theoretical and critical analysis, Brummett develops a systematic rhetoric of style and then demonstrates its use through an in-depth exploration of gun culture in the United States. Armed with an understanding of how this rhetoric of style works methodologically, students and scholars alike will have the tools to do their own analyses. Written in clear and engaging prose, A Rhetoric of Style presents a novel discussion of the workings of style and sheds new light on a venerable and sometimes misunderstood rhetorical concept by illustrating how style is the key to constructing a rhetoric for the twenty-first century.