Media and Communication Research

The Rhetoric of Food

Discourse, Materiality, and Power

Edited by Joshua Frye, Michael Bruner

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant...

Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge

Communicating Marginalized Masculinities

Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media

Edited by Ronald L. Jackson II, Jamie E. Moshin

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially...

Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge

Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions

By Ryan Malphurs

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication

Internatural Communication

Edited by Emily Plec

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Despite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a...

Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge

Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability

Edited by Peter N. Goggin

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community...

Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge

Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation

Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity

By Dustin Bradley Goltz

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah’s Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson’s Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon...

Published November 3rd 2009 by Routledge

Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11

By Marita Gronnvoll

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media...

Published April 29th 2010 by Routledge

Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness

By Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary literacy...

Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge

Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form

Sighting Memory

Edited by Anne Demo, Bradford Vivian

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are...

Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge

Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media

Writing Ecology

Edited by Sidney Dobrin

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a...

Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge

The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire

Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis

By Stephen Brown

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new...

Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge

The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property

Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture

By Jessica Reyman

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to...

Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge