Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty specializing in Media, Rhetoric, & Culture.
Submissions from 2016
Television in America, Gary R. Edgerton
Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film, Casey R. Kelly
Submissions from 2015
The Countdown to Y2KTV and the Arrival of the New Serialists, Gary R. Edgerton
Cooking Without Women: The Rhetoric of the New Culinary Male, Casey R. Kelly
Exoticizing Poverty in Bizarre Foods America, Casey R. Kelly
Shaved or Saved? Disciplining Women’s Bodies, Casey R. Kelly and Kristen Hoerl
“I’m Here to Do Business. I’m Not Here to Play Games.” Work, Consumption, and Masculinity in Storage Wars, Mark A. Rademacher and Casey R. Kelly
Being in Common: In Celebration of Ronald W. Greene's Woolbert Award, Kristin A. Swenson
Submissions from 2014
50 Years Ago, As '1964' Reminds Us, Beatles and Hillbillies Reigned on TV, Gary Edgerton
Remembering Radical Black Dissent: Traumatic Counter-Memories in Contemporary Documentaries about the Black Power Movement, Kristen Hoerl
Bizarre Foods: White Privilege and the Neocolonial Palate, Casey R. Kelly
Détournement, Decolonization, and the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971), Casey R. Kelly
Feminine Purity and Masculine Revenge-Seeking In Taken (2008), Casey R. Kelly
Strange/Familiar: Rhetorics of Exoticism in Ethnographic Television, Casey R. Kelly
True’ Love Waits: The Construction of Facts in Abstinence-Until- Marriage Discourse, Casey R. Kelly
“We Are Not Free”: The Meaning of in American Indian Resistance to President Johnson's War on Poverty, Casey R. Kelly
Submissions from 2013
Smash Cut to Black, Gary Edgerton
Terror, Torture, Soldier, Spy, Gary Edgerton
Submissions from 2012
Brody Must Die, Gary Edgerton
JFK, Don Draper, and the New Sentimentality, Gary Edgerton
The ‘Most Interesting Man in the World', Gary Edgerton
The Tragic Beauty of Ken Burns's The Dust Bowl (2012), Gary Edgerton
Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President Obama’s Inauguration, Kristen Hoerl
Neocolonialism and the Global Prison in National Geographic's Locked Up Abroad, Casey R. Kelly
Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum, Casey R. Kelly and Kristen Hoerl
Lifestyle Drugs and the Neoliberal Family, Kristin A. Swenson
Submissions from 2011
Blood-Speak: Ward Churchill and the Racialization of American Indian Identity, Casey R. Kelly
Affective Labor and Governmental Policy: George W. Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Kristin A. Swenson
Submissions from 2010
Review of Olympic Industry Resistance, by Jefferson Lenskyj, H. (2008), Allison Harthcock
Orwellian Language and the Politics of Tribal Termination (1953-1960), Casey R. Kelly
Review of Redesigning Women: Television after the network era, Ann M. Savage
Submissions from 2009
Falling Man and Man Men, Gary R. Edgerton
Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights, Kristen Hoerl
Deranged Loners and Demented Outsiders? Therapeutic News Frames of Presidential Assassination Attempts, 1973-2001, Kristen Hoerl, D. L. Cloud, and S. E. Jarvis
Book Review: Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients, Kristin A. Swenson
Submissions from 2008
The Contemporary Television Series/Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting, Kenneth C. Creech
Let the domination begin: Sports fans’ construction of identity in on-line message boards, Allison Harthcock
Pretty in pink, Allison Harthcock
Sixteen candles, Allison Harthcock
Cinematic Jujitsu: Resisting White Hegemony through the American Dream in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, Kristen Hoerl
Mississippi’s Social Transformation in Public Memories of the Trial Against Byron de la Beckwith for the Murder of Medgar Evers, Kristen Hoerl
Fashion and the College Transition: Liminality, Play, and the Structuring Power of the Habitus, Mark A. Rademacher
Women film directors and producers, Ann M. Savage
Capitalizing on Affect: Viagra (in)Action, Kristin A. Swenson
Submissions from 2007
Televising 9/11 and Its Aftermath: The Framing of George W. Bush’s Faith-Based Politics of Good and Evil, Gary Edgerton
Mario Van Peebles’s Panther and Popular Memories of the Black Panther Party, Kristen Hoerl
Rhetorical Counterinsurgency: The FBI and the American Indian Movement, Casey R. Kelly
Capital, Consumption, Communication, and Citizenship: The Social Positioning of Taste and Civic Culture in the United States, Mark A. Rademacher
Downshifting Consumer = Upshifting Citizen?, Mark A. Rademacher
Reviews the film Hoxie: The First Stand (2003), Ann M. Savage
Supremes, Ann M. Savage
Submissions from 2006
Review of "Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context," by Carol Vernallis., Ann M. Savage
Submissions from 2005
Where the Past Comes Alive’: Television, History and Popular Memory, Gary Edgerton
Submissions from 2004
Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers, Kristen Hoerl
Submissions from 2003
High Concept, Small Screen: Reperceiving the Industrial and Stylistic Origins of the American Made-for-TV Movie, Gary Edgerton
Public Argument as Self-Preservation: A Critique of Argumentation Theory as a Democratic Practice, Kristen Hoerl
Submissions from 2002
Chalk, Talk, and Videotape: Utilizing Ken Burns’s Television Histories in the Classroom, Gary Edgerton
The Multiplex: The Modern American Motion Picture Theatre as Message, Gary Edgerton
Monstrous youth in suburbia: Disruption and recovery of the American dream, Kristen Hoerl
Re(de)fining Narrative Events: Examining Television Narrative Structure, M. J. Porter, D. L. Larson, Allison Harthcock, and K. B. Nellis
Underground, Ann M. Savage
Submissions from 2001
Big Voices of the Air, Kenneth C. Creech
Pain and Public Deliberation: Citizens, Victims, Advocates, Activists., Kristen Hoerl
Submissions from 2000
Ken Burns’s Rebirth of a Nation: Television, Narrative, and Popular History, Gary Edgerton
Submissions from 1999
Functions of the great debates: Acclaims, attacks, and defenses in the 1960 presidential debates, William L. Benoit and Allison Harthcock
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ Attack on the Tobacco Industry, William L. Benoit and Allison Harthcock
A Communications Cornucopia: Markle Foundation Essays on Information Policy, Kenneth C. Creech and Lee Wilkins
Revisiting the Recordings of Wars Past: Remembering the Documentary Trilogy of John Huston, Gary Edgerton
Submissions from 1997
Broadcast Indecency, Kenneth C. Creech
Film Language and the Persistence of Racial Stereotyping in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Gary Edgerton
Submissions from 1995
Integrating Students into the Operation of a University-Owned Television Station, Christine Taylor
Submissions from 1992
The Murrow Legend as Metaphor: The Creation, Appropriation, and Usefulness of Edward R. Murrow's Life Story, Gary Edgerton
Submissions from 1989
A Visit to the Imaginary Landscape of Harrison, Texas: The Filmed Stories of Horton Foote, Gary Edgerton
Submissions from 1983
The Influence of the Paramount Decision on Network Television in America, Gary Edgerton and Cathy Pratt