The Daily Show and Rhetoric

Arguments, Issues, and Strategies
Herausgeber: Goodnow, Trischa

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Produktbeschreibung

The Daily Show and Rhetoric approaches the popular program from a scholarly, rhetorical perspective to uncover the rhetorical nature of the show. Using a variety of rhetorical methods, the book, taken as a whole, concludes that The Daily Show is more that just a show designed to make the audience laugh; it's designed to make the audience think.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780739150023
• ISBN-10: 0739150022
• Artikelnr.: 32737980

Autorenporträt

Trischa Goodnow is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Oregon State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Section I - The Nature of the Beast Chapter 3
Chapter 1: The Arete of Amusement: An Aristotelian Perspective on the Ethos
of The Daily Show Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Before and After The Daily Show:
Freedom and Consequences in Political Satire Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Cramer
vs. (Jon Stewart's Characterization of) Cramer: Image Repair Rhetoric, Late
Night Political Humor, and The Daily Show Part 6 Section II - Arguments
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: The (Not-So) Laughable Political Argument: A
Close-Textual Analysis of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Chapter 8 Chapter
5: Models of Democratic Deliberation: Pharmacodynamic Agonism in The Daily
Show Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Purifying Laughter: Carnivalesque Self-Parody as
Argument Scheme in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Chapter 10 Chapter 7:
The Voice of the People: Jon Stewart, Vernacular Argument and Political
Satire Part 11 Section III - Strategies Chapter 12 Chapter 8: We Frame to
Please: A Preliminary Examination of The Daily Show's Use of Framing
Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Breaking News: A Postmodern Rhetorical Analysis of
The Daily Show Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Visual Aspects of The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart Part 15 Section IV - Issues Chapter 16 Chapter 11: Gaywatch: A
Burkean Frame Analysis of The Daily Show's Treatment of Queer Topics
Chapter 17 Chapter 12: A Modern Hebrew Prophet?: Jon Stewart and Religious
Satire Chapter 18 Chapter 13: The Daily Show and Barack Obama's Comic
Critique of Whiteness: An Intersection of Popular and Political Rhetoric