Visual rhetoric : a reader in communication and American culture / Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, Diane S. Hope, editors.

Other author Olson, Lester C.
Other author Finnegan, Cara A.
Other author Hope, Diane S.
Format Book
Publication InfoLos Angeles : Sage, ©2008.
Descriptionxxvi, 437 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Visual communication--United States.
Communication--Political aspects. --United States.
United States--Politics and government.

Contents Foreword: Visual rhetorical studies: traces through time and space / Bruce E. Gronbeck -- Visual rhetoric in communication: continuing questions and contemporary issues / Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, Diane S. Hope -- The performative dimension of surveillance: Jacob Riss' How the other half lives / Reginald Twigg -- Embodying normal miracles / Nathan Stormer -- Recognizing Lincoln: image vernaculars in nineteenth-century visual culture / Cara A. Finnegan -- "What lips these lips have kissed": refiguring the politics of queer public kissing / Charles E. Morris III, John M. Sloop -- The rhetoric of the frame: revisioning archival photographs in The Civil War / Judith Lancioni -- Representative form and the visual ideograph: the two Jima image in editorial cartoons / Janis L. Edwards, Carol K. Winkler -- Reproducing civil rights tactics: the rhetorical performances of the civil rights memorial / Carole Blair, Neil Michel -- Remembering World War II: the rhetoric and politics of national commemoration at the turn of the 21st century / Barbara A. Biesecker -- Public identity an collective memory in U.S. iconic photography: the image of "accidental napalm" / Robert Hariman, John Louis Lucaites -- The precarious visibility of self-stigmatization: the case of HIV/AIDS tattoos / Dan Brouwer -- Encountering visions of Aztlán: arguments for ethnic pride, community activism, and cultural revitalization in Chicano murals / Margaret R. LaWare -- The guerrilla girls' comic politics of subversion / Anne Teresa Demo -- Behold the corpse: violent images and the case of emmet till / Christine Harold, Kevin Michael DeLuca -- The forces of Callas kiss: the 1997 apple advertising campaign, "think different" / Ronald E. Shields -- "Put your stamp on history": the USPS commemorative program Celebrate the century and post modern collective memory / Ekaterina V. Haskins -- Memorializing affluence in the postwar family: Kodak's colorama in grand central terminal (1950-1990) / Diane S. Hope -- Benjamin Franklin's Pictorial representations of the British colonies in America: a study in rhetorical iconology / Lester C. Olson -- Presidential rhetoric's visual turn: performance fragments and the politics of illusionism / Keith V. Erickson -- Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton: television news practices and image-making in the postmodern age / Shawn J. Parry-Giles -- "To veil the threat of terror": Afghan women and the <clash of civilizations> in the imagery of the U.S. war on terrorism / Dana L. Cloud -- Afterword: Look, rhetoric! / Thomas W. Benson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007041866
ISBN9781412949194 (pbk.)
ISBN141294919X (pbk.)