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Author:   Kathleen Glenister Roberts
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781433126420

ISBN 10:   1433126427
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   23 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Contents: Kathleen Glenister Roberts: Editor’s Note – Nancy Bressler: Improving Your Speech Delivery with Modern Family and Friends – Jake Dionne/Joe Hatfield: Life as Performance - Dramatism and the Music of Lady Gaga ‒ Gerald J. Hickly III: «Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose» - Finding the God-Terms in Friday Night Lights – Kathleen Glenister Roberts: Understanding Ceremonial Speech through Fantasy Literature – Elena C. Strauman: Winning Isn’t Everything - Credibility, Leadership, and Virtue in HBO’s Game of Thrones ‒ Janelle Applequist: «Let it go, let it go» - Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in Disney’s Frozen – Claudia Bucciferro: Mockingjays and Silent Salutes - Introducing Semiotics through The Hunger Games – Garret Castleberry: Understanding Stuart Hall’s «Encoding/Decoding» Model through TV’s Breaking Bad – Hunter H. Fine: Postmodern Theory and Hip-Hop Cultural Discourse – Bruce W. Finklea/Sally Bennett Hardig: Seen but Not Heard - Exploring Muted Group Theory in Pixar’s The Incredibles, WALL-E, and Brave – Krystal Fogle: Knope vs. Pope: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Scandal vs. Parks & Recreation – Brian Gilchrist: The Smartphone as Permanent Substitute Teacher – Paul A. Lucas: Media and Technology - Metal and Mutation in the X-Men Films – Andrew Sharma/Chrys Egan: Hashtag Television Advertising - The Multistep Flow of Millennial TV Usage, Commercial Viewing, and Social Media Interaction – Brent Sleasman: Zombie Apocalypse, Haitian Vodou, and Media Ecology - A Cautionary Tale for Our Technological Future – Linnea Sudduth Ward: Uses and Gratifications Theory in How I Met Your Mother - True Story – Andrew Cole/Bob DuBois: «Don’t Open, Dead Inside» – External and Internal Noise in The Walking Dead – Holly Holladay/Sara Trask: Hook, Line, and Sinker - Theories of Interpersonal Deception and Manipulation in Catfish – Alysa Ann Lucas: «Got a Secret. Can You Keep It?» - Pretty Little Liars, Friendship, and Privacy Management – Kelli Jean K. Smith/Sharmila Pixy Ferris: Social Penetration Theory and Relationship Formation in Harry Potter.

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Kathleen Glenister Roberts (PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington) is Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and Director of the Honors College at Duquesne University. She is the author of numerous essays and the books Alterity and Narrative (2007) and The Limits of Cosmopolis (Peter Lang, 2014).

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