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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 …
"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.
Race And Local Television News Crime Coverage, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt
Race And Local Television News Crime Coverage, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt
Communication Faculty Publications
Viewers of local television newscasts across the United States are regularly exposed to crime news stories. Crime coverage by local television stations is studied with an interest in how live reporting, dramatic video, and timeliness influence perceptions of race in the United States. Crime coverage did not always identify the race of a suspect because that information often was not available from police. However, when violent criminals or suspects were identified, race normally was shown through a mug shot, photograph, or video from the scene. When an African-American suspect was shown in police custody, the images tended to reinforce existing …