Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and index.
Contents:
Social issues in disguise : an introduction to sneaky rhetoric / Barry Brummett -- Remembering and forgetting Black power in Mississippi Burning / Kristen Hoerl -- Limited representation : a homology of discriminatory media portrayals of little people and African Americans / Lisa Glebatis Perks, Luke Winslow, and Sharon Avital -- Whispers of a racial past : forms of White liberal history in The Horse Whisperer / Barry Brummett -- The evil albino : cinematic othering and scapegoating of extreme Whites / Lisa Glebatis Perks -- Detecting a common interpretive framework for impersonal violence : the homology in participants' rhetoric on sport hunting, "hate crimes," and stranger rape / Kathryn M. Olson -- Classy morality : the rhetoric of Joel Osteen / Luke Winslow -- The re-visioned American dream : the wildlife documentary form as conservative nostalgia / Angela J. Aguayo -- Weathering the storm : Pirates of the Caribbean and transnational corporatism / E. Johanna Hartelius -- A history of colonial witchcraft : witch-hunt tourism and commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts / Roger Gatchet -- Outing the Marlboro Man : issues of masculinity and class closeted in Brokeback Mountain / Teresita Garza -- Making gay sense of the X-Men / William Earnest.
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