The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts - Softcover

Sellnow, Deanna D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412915414 ISBN 13: 9781412915410

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

Review:

"Best considered a classroom text, it takes students through the steps necessary to write analyses of various forms of popular culture, ranging from stage musicals to film and television to popular music to advertising to visual images and beyond." (Paul A. Soukup, S.J.)

About the Author:

Deanna Sellnow is currently a professor of strategic communication in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida.  She conducts research in two major areas.  The first focuses on strategic instructional communication in a variety of contexts (e.g., classrooms, risk and crisis, health).  The second focuses on rhetorical studies of popular culture. She has conducted funded research for the USGS, USDA, Department of Homeland Security, and CDC.  Her work is published in refereed national and international journals, as well several books.  She has presented her work across the U.S. and in many countries around the world including, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Senegal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam.  She and her husband, Tim, have a daughter (Debbie), son (Rick), son-in-law (Scott), and grandson (Lincoln).

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412915414
• ISBN 13: 9781412915410
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216