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  • Techniques of Close Reading

    by Barry S. Brummett ...
    Techniques of Close Reading, Second Edition helps students gain a deeper understanding of what texts may be saying, whether they are written, oral, visual, or mediated. Renowned scholar and professor Barry Brummett explains and explores the various ways to "read" messages (such as speeches, cartoons, or magazine ads), teaching students how to see deeper levels of meaning and to share those ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Rhetoric in Popular Culture

    by Barry S. Brummett ...
    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 ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Clockwork Rhetoric

    The Language and Style of Steampunk

    Edited by Barry Brummett ...
    This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement “Steampunk” persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyper-extended age of steam. In addition to its modeling of attire and other symbolic trappings, what is most distinctive is its adherents' use of a machined ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Sports and Identity

    New Agendas in Communication

    Edited by Barry Brummett, Andrew Ishak ...
    Series series New Agendas in Communication Series
    This volume of essays examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States. The essays included here explore the question, How is identity engaged in the performance and spectatorship of sports? Defining sports as the whole range of mediated professional sports, and considering actual participation in sports, the chapters herein ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Inventing Place

    Writing Lone Star Rhetorics

    by Megan Gianfagna, Amy Young, Nate Kreuter, James Chase Sanchez, Cynthia Haynes, Doug Eskew, Jordan Frith, Michael Odom, Ryan Skinnell, William Burdette, Victor J. Vitanza, Jennifer D Carlson, Donna Dunbar-Odom, Brian McNely, Jillian Sayre, James J. Brown Jr., Professor Barry Brummett, PhD ...
    Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space.Divided into five sections corresponding to Texas regions, essays ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Unruly Voices

    Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Accessible, entertaining, anecdotal. A good introduction to issues in contemporary civics as well as a measured and thoughtful response to major themes and figures in cultural studies.Civility in politics is a subject throughout, and analyses of both Obama's rhetoric and the use of lowest-common-denominator insults in public debate will be well-timed going into the 2012 election campaignNot just ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Post-Postmodernism

    or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism

    by Jeffrey Nealon ...
    Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US

    People, Politics, and Power

    by Jenn Brandt, Callie Clare ...
    Winner of the Popular Culture Association's 2018 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook / PrimerWhat is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power introduces and explores the history and contemporary analysis of popular culture in the United States. In situating popular culture as lived ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Be a Critical Thinker

    Hone Your Mind to Think Critically

    by Donald L. Karshner ...
    When reading the newspaper, listening to politicians or discussing current events, how can you determine whether the facts and opinions shared are truthful and accurate or misleading and false? Donald L. Karshner has had a lifelong interest in developing critical thinking skills. Inspired by his granddaughter, who was open to suggestions as she went off to college, Karshner began compiling his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reality TV

    The Work of Being Watched

    by Mark Andrejevic ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Making the Invisible Visible

    Gender in Language

    by M. J. Hardman, Anita Taylor, Catherine Wright ...
    All that is human is mediated through language. And because we learned the process of being human in a culture as we learned the language of that culture, much that we learned remains invisible to us. But even though invisible, it guides what and how we learn and remember, our perceptions, our behaviors, including communicative behaviors. Throughout our lives, that early language/culture learning ... Read more

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