Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays / Edition 1

Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
1412909007
ISBN-13:
9781412909006
Pub. Date:
12/08/2005
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
1412909007
ISBN-13:
9781412909006
Pub. Date:
12/08/2005
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays / Edition 1

Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays / Edition 1

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Overview

Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays is a unique, interdisciplinary collection that brings together contemporary and classic readings to provide significant insights into the practice and theory of propaganda and persuasion. The contents range from seminal essays to articles by well-known writers on propaganda to new essays about responses to contemporary issues and events. This engaging anthology also includes analyses of the relationship between rhetoric, propaganda, and persuasion.


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ISBN-13: 9781412909006
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 12/08/2005
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Garth S. Jowett is a professor of communications at the University of Houston. He obtained his Ph D in history and communication from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as the director for social research for the Canadian government's department of communication and has been a consultant to various international communication agencies. He has been widely published in the area of popular culture and the history of communication. His book, Film: The Democratic Art (1976), was a benchmark in film history. His other publications include, Movies as Mass Communication, Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Studies, and Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion, co-edited with Victoria O'Donnell. He is on the boards of several communication and film journals.

Victoria O’Donnell is Professor Emerita and former director of the University Honors Program and Professor of Communication at Montana State University–Bozeman. She also taught a seminar in television criticism for the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University. Previously she was the chair of the Department of Speech Communication at Oregon State University and chair of the Department of Communication and Public Address at the University of North Texas. In 1988 she taught for the American Institute of Foreign Studies at the University of London. She received her Ph D from the Pennsylvania State University. She has published articles and chapters in a wide range of journals and books on topics concerning persuasion, the social effects of media, women in film and television, British politics, Nazi propaganda, collective memory, cultural studies theory, and science fiction films of the 1950s. She is also the author (with June Kable) of Persuasion: An Interactive-Dependency Approach, Propaganda and Persuasion (with Garth Jowett), Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays (co-edited with Garth Jowett), Television Criticism, and Speech Communication. She made a film, Women, War, and Work: Shaping Space for Productivity in the Shipyards During World War II, for PBS through KUSM Public Television at Montana State University. She has also written television scripts for environmental films and has done voice-overs for several PBS films. She served on editorial boards of several journals. The recipient of numerous research grants, honors, and teaching awards, including being awarded the Honor Professorship at North Texas State University and the Montana State University Alumni Association and Bozeman Chamber of Commerce Award of Excellence, she has been a Danforth Foundation Associate and a Summer Scholar of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has taught in Germany and has been a visiting lecturer at universities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Wales. She has also served as a private consultant to the U.S. government, a state senator, the tobacco litigation plaintiffs, and many American corporations. She is an active volunteer with Intermountain Therapy Animals, taking her Golden Retriever, Gabriel, to the elementary schools where the children read to the dog in the R.E.A.D. program. She writes children’s stories about Gabriel. She is currently writing a novel about Ireland.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Characteristics of Propaganda - Jacques Ellul
Chapter 2: A Prolegomenon to the Future Study of Rhetoric and Propaganda: Critical Foundations - Beth S. Bennett & Sean Patrick O'Rourke
Chapter 3: War Propaganda and the American Revolution: The Pen and the Sword - Gladys Thum and Marcella Thum
Chapter 4: We Become Propagandists - Thomas C. Sorenson
Chapter 5: The Bolshevik Revolution and the War of Ideologies (1917-39) - Philip Taylor
Chapter 6: Restructuring the Means of Communication in Nazi Germany - David A. Welch
Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Hitler’s "Battle" - Kenneth Burke
Chapter 8: 'Why We Fight': Social Engineering for a Democratic Society at War - David Culbert
Chapter 9: The Function of Psychological Warfare - Paul M.A. Linebarger
Chapter 10: Brainwashing: The Korean POW Controversy and the Origins of a Myth - Garth S. Jowett
Chapter 11: The Influence of the Built Environment - Victoria O'Donnell
Chapter 12: U.S. Public Diplomacy: Its History, Problems, and Promise - Nancy Snow
Chapter 13: Visualizing Absence: The Function of Visual Metaphors in the Efforts to Make a Fitting Response to 9/11 - Stuart J. Kaplan
Chapter 14: Evening Gowns to Burqas: The Propaganda of Fame - Margaret Cavin
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