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Title

The politics of style and the style of politics / Barry Brummett.

Author

Brummett, Barry, 1951-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Brummett, Barry, 1951-

Description

288 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Lexington studies in political communication

Subject

• Communication in politics
• Rhetoric > Political aspects
• Public opinion
• Politics, Practical
• Public Opinion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The problems and promises of rhetorical style / Bradford Vivian -- Politics and the rhetoric of style / Barry Brummett -- Preserving America: the Tea Party movement and the cultivation of revolutionary conservatism / Amanda Davis Gatchet -- Stylizing Sotomayor: style as rhetoric of caricatures / Clariza Ruiz De Castilla -- Political style for the people: nonviolence as political power / Jennifer J. Asenas -- The narcissistic style of American politics: the rhetorical appeal of Sarah Palin / Matthew B. Morris -- Experiential political style: Oprah Winfrey's identification with the electorate / Maegan Stephens -- Read her pins: analyzing Madeleine Albright's brooches as a means of procuring space for women in politics through image and aesthetics / Mary Anne Taylor -- The decider and the debater: George W. Bush, Barack Obama and two very different democratic styles / Jay P. Childers -- The rhetoric of style for a new millennium: Project Runway's Tim Gunn as apocalyptic prophet / Joseph Faina -- The roots of style: hair, cultural politics, and epideictic rhetoric / Teresita Garza -- On drawing knives and experience: the rise of the ekphrastic text in Bravo's Top chef / Ashley Noel Mack.
• Style as othering: authenticity, class, and identity in Meet the natives: U.S.A. / Tiara Naputi -- The First Amendment and rhetorical style: the politics of school dress codes / Kevin A. Johnson -- Sinister surfaces and the style of simulacra in the modern stylized horror film / Sean Tiffee -- Ce n'est pas une pipe. C'est rhetorique / Carlnita P. Greene -- Eccentri(cities): the rhetoric of style through the lens of the weird / Kristin Stimpson -- Everybody was kung fu fighting: commemoration, camp, and countering the traumatic / Sarah Vartabedian -- A politics of affectation, or, how to out-dead the undead / Jaime Wright -- Quaffable, but uh ... far from transcendent: wine, rhetorical style and politics / Anna M. Young.

ISBN

• 9780739165287 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739165283 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011006359

OCLC

704243765

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library