The Daily Show and rhetoric
Subtitle: arguments, issues, and strategies
By: edited by Trischa Goodnow
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780739150023; 9780739150030; 9780739150047
Subjects: Daily show (Television program)
Description: Examines the popular Comedy Central program from a rhetorical perspective to uncover the way in which Jon Stewart, the cast, and the writers critique mainstream media and politicians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Nature of the Beast. The Arete of Amusement: An Aristotelian Perspective on the Ethos of The Daily Show / Jonathan E. Barbur and Trischa Goodnow; title: Before and After The Daily Show: Freedom and Consequences in Political Satire / Robert Spicer; title: Cramer vs. (Jon Stewart's Characterization of) Cramer: Image Repair Rhetoric, Late Night Political Humor, and The Daily Show / Josh Compton; title: Arguments. The (Not-So) Laughable Political Argument: A Close-Textual Analysis of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart / John W. Self; title: Models of Democratic Deliberation: Pharmacodynamic Agonism in The Daily Show / Kelly Wilz; title: Purifying Laughter: Carnivalesque Self-Parody as Argument Scheme in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart /  Aaron Hess; title: The Voice of the People: Jon Stewart, Vernacular Argument and Political Satire / Ryan McGeough; title: Strategies. We Frame to Please: A Preliminary Examination of The Daily Show's Use of Framing / Penina Wiesman; title: Breaking News: A Postmodern Rhetorical Analysis of The Daily Show / Aaron Hess; title: Visual Aspects of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart / Lawrence J. Mullen; title: Issues. Gaywatch: A Burkean Frame Analysis of The Daily Show's Treatment of Queer Topics / C. Wesley Buerkle; title: A Modern Hebrew Prophet?: Jon Stewart and Religious Satire / Brian T. Kaylor; title: The Daily Show and Barack Obama's Comic Critique of Whiteness: An Intersection of Popular and Political Rhetoric / Stephanie M. Purtle & Timothy Steffensmeier.