Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise - Hardcover

Barry Brummett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412956919 ISBN 13: 9781412956918

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

"One of the most important benefits of this book is that Brummet and his contributors demonstrate interesting ways to read critically." ―T.B. Dykeman,CHOICE

Unmasking the social and political messages found in popular culture  

Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.  

Key Features  

• Weaves meticulous analysis with popular culture throughout, keeping students and scholarly readers alike engaged and interested  
• Empowers students to find hidden themes in texts of everyday life and inspires ongoing critical thinking  
• Using a clear and engaging style and examples of well-known works makes formal analysis more accessible  

Intended Audience  
Interested scholars and upper-level undergraduate students enrolled in such courses as rhetoric and popular culture, contemporary rhetorical theory/criticism, media criticism, popular culture and mass communication, rhetorical methods, and so forth will find this compelling text an informative and delightful read.

About this title

About the Author

Barry Brummett is the Charles Sapp Centennial Professor in Communication Emeritus of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1978 and taught at Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin before coming to the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, retiring in 2022. Brummett has authored, coauthored, or edited numerous articles, scholarly essays, and books, including Rhetoric of Style, Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk, Contemporary Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Techniques of Close Reading, Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics, and The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics. His research pursuits include the rhetoric of popular culture, epistemology, and the theories of Kenneth Burke.

From the Back Cover

Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412956919
• ISBN 13: 9781412956918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288