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Informationen zum Autor Barry Brummett is the Charles Sapp Centennial Professor in Communication and Department Chair at University of Texas-Austin. Klappentext The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics understands style as the intersection of communication, culture, commodification, and aesthetics. Chapters study a wide range of ways that style intersects with politics in popular culture. Zusammenfassung The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics understands style as the intersection of communication! culture! commodification! and aesthetics. Chapters study a wide range of ways that style intersects with politics in popular culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Preface: The Problems and Promises of Rhetorical Style Part 2 Introduction: Politics and the Rhetoric of Style Part 3 Part I: Style in the rhetoric of politics Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Preserving America: The Tea Party Movement and the Cultivation of Revolutionary Conservatism Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Stylizing Sotomayor: Style as Rhetoric of Caricatures Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Political Style for the People: Nonviolence as Political Power Chapter 7 Chapter 4: The Narcissistic Style of American Politics: The Rhetorical Appeal of Sarah Palin Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Experiential Political Style: Oprah Winfrey's Identification with the Electorate Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Read Her Pins: Analyzing Madeleine Albright's Brooches as a Means of Procuring Space for Women in Politics through Image and Aesthetics Chapter 10 Chapter 7: The Decider and The Debater: George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Two Very Different Democratic Styles Part 11 Part II: Style in the politics of culture Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Rhetoric of Style for a New Millennium: Project Runway's Tim Gunn as Apocalyptic Prophet Chapter 13 Chapter 9: The Roots of Style: Hair, Cultural Politics, and Epideictic Rhetoric Chapter 14 Chapter 10: On Drawing Knives and Experience: The Rise of the Ekphrastic Text in Bravo's Top Chef Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Style as Othering: Authenticity, Class, and Identity in Meet the Natives, U.S.A. Chapter 16 Chapter 12: The First Amendment and Rhetorical Style: The Politics of School Dress Codes Chapter 17 Chapter 13: Sinister Surfaces and the Style of Simulacra in the Modern "Stylized" Horror Film Chapter 18 Chapter 14: Ce n'est pas une pipe. C'est rhétorique Chapter 19 Chapter 15: 15: Eccentri(cities): The Rhetoric of Style Through the Lens of the Weird Chapter 20 Chapter 16: Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Commemoration, Camp, and Countering the Traumatic Chapter 21 Chapter 17: A Politics of Affectation, Or, How to Out-dead the Undead Chapter 22 Chapter 18: Quaffable, but uh...far from transcendent: Wine, Rhetorical Style and Politics...
