Separating popular fiction into "lowbrow" and "middlebrow," Wood (U. of Wisconsin, River Falls) argues that lowbrow, like highbrow, evolves from folkloric tradition and contains messages about how to
An analysis of the freedom songs sung by Civil Rights activists and their rhetorical persuasion as part of an evolving African-American history. The songs are viewed as communication strategies that
Juxtaposing a chronology of the nuclear age with a nuclear film list (1945-97), Perrine probes the themes of over 200 movies as they relate to: the first atomic bombs ( The Beginning of the End ), nuc
The author begins by defining the discourse of athletics and investigating its presence in broadcasting by means of textual analyses of the media images of athletes Ryne Sandberg, Jim McMahon, and Mic