Uncovering hidden rhetorics
Subtitle: social issues in disguise
By: [edited by] Barry Brummett
Contributors: Brummett, Barry, 1951-
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781412956918; 9781412956925
Subjects: Rhetoric -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and index
Table of contents: title: Social issues in disguise : an introduction to sneaky rhetoric / Barry Brummett; title: Remembering and forgetting Black power in Mississippi Burning / Kristen Hoerl; title: Limited representation : a homology of discriminatory media portrayals of little people and African Americans / Lisa Glebatis Perks, Luke Winslow, and Sharon Avital; title: Whispers of a racial past : forms of White liberal history in The Horse Whisperer / Barry Brummett; title: The evil albino : cinematic othering and scapegoating of extreme Whites / Lisa Glebatis Perks; title: Detecting a common interpretive framework for impersonal violence : the homology in participants' rhetoric on sport hunting, "hate crimes," and stranger rape / Kathryn M. Olson; title: Classy morality : the rhetoric of Joel Osteen / Luke Winslow; title: The re-visioned American dream : the wildlife documentary form as conservative nostalgia / Angela J. Aguayo; title: Weathering the storm : Pirates of the Caribbean and transnational corporatism / E. Johanna Hartelius; title: A history of colonial witchcraft : witch-hunt tourism and commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts / Roger Gatchet; title: Outing the Marlboro Man : issues of masculinity and class closeted in Brokeback Mountain / Teresita Garza; title: Making gay sense of the X-Men / William Earnest