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The Political Mel Brooks analyzes the work of Mel Brooks as political and social commentary. It demonstrates that Brooks is a serious, political filmmaker whose comedies go beyond goofy parody, attending to serious socio-political issues through a humorous lens.

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The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation is a sociological analysis of the similarities between the elections of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, based on biographies, academic sources, newspaper, television, and internet reports published in the United States and Brazil between 2014 and 2021.

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This unique book systematically examines the interplay among foreign policymakers, the press, and public opinion in the process of China policy decision making from 1950 to 1984. The comprehensive analysis allows readers to understand hoe the press shapes and is shaped by foreign policy decisions.

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The history of mass communication in Nigeria predates the 1859 publication of the country's first newspaper, but despite this history and the fact that Nigeria commands Africa's most powerful and vigorous press, gathering information on the subject has been difficult.

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Drawing from psychology, journalism, and communication studies, this book discusses the often-debilitating anxiety when ying, as an important issue that is plaguing the human race.

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The Queer Life of Things takes up new materialism and posthumanism as a queer intervention into the devaluing and degradation of some human, animal, and plant lives and ways of living. Through a sustained and vibrant encounter with things that matter, this book offers readers an affective and more-than-human mode of activism for the 21st century.

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The Red Scare at the FCC started when James Lawrence Fly led the agency in many important decisions that were inspired by the New Deal.

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Wenshan Jia demonstrates that a true liberation of Chinese civic discourse can start with a focus on indigenous cultural practices, such as face practices--the understanding that every human face offers a distinct cultural grammar for acting, speaking, and feeling.

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Wenshan Jia demonstrates that a true liberation of Chinese civic discourse can start with a focus on indigenous cultural practices, such as face practices--the understanding that every human face offers a distinct cultural grammar for acting, speaking, and feeling.

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The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton explores how the musical confronts conventional conceptions of American history, racial equity, and political power. Scholars of theatre studies, media studies, and communication studies will find this book particularly useful.

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This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how Americas civil religion is forged through contestations of its beliefs, rituals, places, events, and myths by different groups and individuals.

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This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how Americas civil religion is forged through contestations of its beliefs, rituals, places, events, and myths by different groups and individuals.

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This book analyzes how women converse about breast cancer on the Internet. The author provides a discussion of the complex structures of online communities, particularly those focused on medical diagnoses.

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This volume offers the first book-length consideration of American religious freedom advocacy from a rhetorical perspective. In it, fifteen scholars consider twelve contemporary controversies with attention to arguments, evidence, and strategy.

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This book analyzes the thiry-six political party conventions since 1948 as rhetorical entities with goals often epideictic, constitutive, and even deliberative. Crucial in meeting (and sometimes not) these goals are speeches, demonstrations, and off-camera discussions at each convention.

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Rachel Sussman Kaplan investigates the rhetorical forces that are driving the opioid crisis in America.

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This book explores the rhetorical strategies employed by women involved in aviation between 1911 and 1970. It begins with Harriet Quimby, who began writing aviation-themed articles for Frank Leslie's Weekly in 1911, and ends with Jerrie Cobb, who lobbied to include women in the space program.

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The Rhetorical Invention of Man examines how the category Man has dominated Western thinking since the sixteenth century. This category, a historical anomaly according to Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, has produced distortions in our ability to understand reality that do great harm to our health, morals, and environment.

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This study analyzes the rhetorical uses of the authorizing figure during the Cuban revolution. Rice discusses how the authorizing figure defines and unifies the emerging revolutionary movement and legitimizes the revolutionary vision over time.

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Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy. Examining the brand in history, the growth of national and global brands, the changing approaches of the branding industry and the exploration of new spaces for advertising, this work analyses exactly how brands develop and operate in contemporary society.

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Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy. Examining the brand in history, the growth of national and global brands, the changing approaches of the branding industry and the exploration of new spaces for advertising, this work analyses exactly how brands develop and operate in contemporary society.

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This book uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including autoethnography, interpersonal communication, and large-scale societal conflicts, to explore how humans both observe and confront our differences with one another and with the world around us.

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The phenomenon of the small world, as in two new acquaintances discovering that they have an acquaintance in common, is of great scientific interest. This volume brings together much of what is understood about the small world problem, and the chapters indicate the quality, vitality, and scope of this area.

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This volume examines the role of social factors in the nature and development of written communication. Unlike previous works, the volume is dedicated to examining the ways in which written communication affects and is affected by the community of writers and readers who produce and interpret written language.