Full Description
Undergraduate students of popular culture, media studies, media literacy, content analysis, and rhetoric studies.
Contents
Part I: Theory
1. Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Tradition
2. Rhetoric and Popular Culture
3. Rhetorical Methods in Critical Studies
4. Varieties of Rhetorical Criticism: INTERVENTION-Understanding
5. Varieties of Rhetorical Criticism: UNDERSTANDING-Intervention
Part II: Application
6. Paradoxes of Personalization: Race Relations in Milwaukee
7. On Gangsta Rap, Written with the Help of the Reader
8. Simulational Selves, Simulational Culture in Groundhog Day
9. Media and Representation in Rec.Motorcycles
10. Two Homological Critiques: iPods and Cavemen