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Introduction To "On The Sleeve Of The Visual: Race As Face Value", Alessandra Raengo
Introduction To "On The Sleeve Of The Visual: Race As Face Value", Alessandra Raengo
Communication Faculty Publications
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Reification, Reanimation, And The Money Of The Real, Alessandra Raengo
Reification, Reanimation, And The Money Of The Real, Alessandra Raengo
Communication Faculty Publications
This essay is an exercise in a form of looking from a distance. It is prompted by the desire to explore the connection between two stunning objects, namely, Ken Jacobs’s Capitalism: Slavery (2006), a digital animation of a stereoscopic card picturing slaves at work in a cotton field, and Nick Hooker’s 2008 digital video for Grace Jones’s song Corporate Cannibal. This is not an essay directly about Ken Jacobs and even less about Grace Jones, but rather an attempt to show how, for me, these two works belong to the same set. The set I am thinking about is …
Constructing Asian/American Women On Screen, Charleen M. Wilcox
Constructing Asian/American Women On Screen, Charleen M. Wilcox
Communication Theses
Asian/American women occupy a highly circumscribed subject position in popular Western culture that entails a unique reading of our bodies. My discussion of this group will gain greater depth and scope by using Black body theory as a theoretical framework to better understand how Asian/American bodies become a site to enact a multitude of fantasies, fears, and anxieties. I will examine three case studies: the construction of the interracial “romance” featuring Asian/American women produced in classical Hollywood cinema, interracial pornography featuring Asian/American female performers, and the independent works of Asian/American feminist filmmakers. Topics interrogated include the over-determination of non-White bodies …
"The Joshua Generation": Rethinking The Rhetorical Presidency And Presidential Rhetoric, Mary Stuckey
"The Joshua Generation": Rethinking The Rhetorical Presidency And Presidential Rhetoric, Mary Stuckey
Communication Faculty Publications
While the “rhetorical presidency,” has been both accepted as a heuristic justifying the study of presidential speech on one hand and disputed as to its accuracy and utility yon the other, this model assumes a white male president who governs within a pre-cable, pre-internet political context. This essay will first briefly survey the history of the rhetorical presidency and then look closely at the factors (class, race, gender, and the mediated and even interactive nature of presidential rhetoric) that will need to be taken into account as scholarship on the rhetorical presidency - and on presidential rhetoric - moves forward.
Gender Images And Power In Magazine Advertisements: The Consciousness Scale Revisited, Lorie N. Bonham
Gender Images And Power In Magazine Advertisements: The Consciousness Scale Revisited, Lorie N. Bonham
Communication Theses
This study re-evaluates the Consciousness Scale originally formulated by Pingree et al. in 1976. The element of assumed power was added to the Consciousness Scale, which was then used to evaluate 516 magazine advertisements from 1999 to determine if the Consciousness Scale still accurately evaluates sexism in media. A set of advertisements was culled which had contradictory Consciousness Scale and power ratings. The set was evaluated, revealing common themes, which created difficulty in coding these modern images. The study revealed that while the Consciousness Scale can still provide a valuable tool in evaluating media images, the change in the social …