Entertaining fear
Subtitle: rhetoric and the political economy of social control
By: edited by Catherine Chaput, Mary Jean Braun, Danika Brown.
Contributors: Chaput, Catherine.; Braun, Mary Jean.; Brown, Danika.
Series: Frontiers in political communication -- v. 18
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433105852; 9781433105869
Subjects: Social control; Fear
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Electing empire : systemic chaos and the fear of falling / M.J. Braun; title: Blow back the enemy t/here : errors, terrors, and the rhetorical agenda of WMDs / Kevin Douglas Kuswa; title: We have nothing to fear but : a rhetorical analysis of fear in post-9/11 sermons / Mark A. Gring; title: Fear of fire and hope for jobs : the rhetoric of sustainable development in the political ecology of wildfire / Paul Burkhardt; title: Upwardly mobile by degrees : higher education and the rhetorics of fear / Danika M. Brown; title: Boundaries of citizenship : undocumented workers and temporary work policies in the United States / Amy J. Wan; title: The architecture of fear : common sense and the U.S.-Mexico border wall / Zoe Hammer; title: Art, apprehension, and the gated community : Thomas Kinkade's "village" / Cynthia Duquette Smith; title: The mall of America : consumption in the social wilderness / Cristina Hanganu-Bresch; title: "Is that what they are so afraid of?" : the popular media and pro-anorexia websites / Kat McLellan; title: Transnational remembering : navigating fear and racism, shame, and nostalgia / Angela Crow.