The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics

Herausgeber: Brummett, Barry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics understands style as the intersection of communication, culture, commodification, and aesthetics. Chapters study a wide range of ways that style intersects with politics in popular culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780739165287
• ISBN-10: 0739165283
• Artikelnr.: 33390027

Autorenporträt

Edited by Barry Brummett - Contributions by Jennifer J. Asenas; Barry Brummett; Jay P. Childers; Joe Faina; Teresita Garza; Amanda Davis Gatchet; Carlnita P. Greene; Kevin A. Johnson; Ashley Noel Mack; Tiara Naputi; Matthew B. Morris; Clariza Ruiz De Cast

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface: The Problems and Promises of Rhetorical Style Part 2
Introduction: Politics and the Rhetoric of Style Part 3 Part I: Style in
the rhetoric of politics Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Preserving America: The Tea
Party Movement and the Cultivation of Revolutionary Conservatism Chapter 5
Chapter 2: Stylizing Sotomayor: Style as Rhetoric of Caricatures Chapter 6
Chapter 3: Political Style for the People: Nonviolence as Political Power
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: The Narcissistic Style of American Politics: The
Rhetorical Appeal of Sarah Palin Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Experiential
Political Style: Oprah Winfrey's Identification with the Electorate Chapter
9 Chapter 6: Read Her Pins: Analyzing Madeleine Albright's Brooches as a
Means of Procuring Space for Women in Politics through Image and Aesthetics
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: The Decider and The Debater: George W. Bush, Barack
Obama and Two Very Different Democratic Styles Part 11 Part II: Style in
the politics of culture Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Rhetoric of Style for a
New Millennium: Project Runway's Tim Gunn as Apocalyptic Prophet Chapter 13
Chapter 9: The Roots of Style: Hair, Cultural Politics, and Epideictic
Rhetoric Chapter 14 Chapter 10: On Drawing Knives and Experience: The Rise
of the Ekphrastic Text in Bravo's Top Chef Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Style as
Othering: Authenticity, Class, and Identity in Meet the Natives, U.S.A.
Chapter 16 Chapter 12: The First Amendment and Rhetorical Style: The
Politics of School Dress Codes Chapter 17 Chapter 13: Sinister Surfaces and
the Style of Simulacra in the Modern "Stylized" Horror Film Chapter 18
Chapter 14: Ce n'est pas une pipe. C'est rhétorique Chapter 19 Chapter 15:
15: Eccentri(cities): The Rhetoric of Style Through the Lens of the Weird
Chapter 20 Chapter 16: Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Commemoration, Camp,
and Countering the Traumatic Chapter 21 Chapter 17: A Politics of
Affectation, Or, How to Out-dead the Undead Chapter 22 Chapter 18:
Quaffable, but uh...far from transcendent: Wine, Rhetorical Style and
Politics