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    The Daily Show and Rhetoric Arguments, Issues, and Strategies

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    The Daily Show and Rhetoric approaches the popular program from a scholarly, rhetorical perspective to uncover the rhetorical nature of the show. Using a variety of rhetorical methods, the book, taken as a whole, concludes that The Daily Show is more that just a show designed to make the audience laugh; it's designed to make the audience think.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Daily Show and Rhetoric-Arguments, Issues, and Strategies -- I: The Nature of the Beast -- 1 The Arete of Amusement: An Aristotelian Perspective on the Ethos of The Daily Show -- 2 Before and After The Daily Show: Freedom and Consequences in Political Satire -- 3 Cramer vs. (Jon Stewart's Characterization of) Cramer: Image Repair Rhetoric, Late Night Political Humor, and The Daily Show -- II: Arguments -- 4 The (not-so) Laughable Political Argument: A Close-Textual Analysis of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- 5 Models of Democratic Deliberation: Pharmacodynamic Agonism in The Daily Show -- 6 Purifying Laughter: Carnivalesque Self-Parody as Argument Scheme in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- 7 The Voice of the People: Jon Stewart, Public Argument, and Political Satire -- III: Strategies -- 8 We Frame to Please: A Preliminary Examination of The Daily Show's Use of Frames -- 9 Breaking News: A Postmodern Rhetorical Analysis of The Daily Show -- 10 Visual Aspects of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- IV: Issues -- 11 Gaywatch: A Burkean Frame Analysis of The Daily Show's Treatment of Queer Topics -- 12 Modern Hebrew Prophets? The Daily Show and Religious Satire -- 13 The Daily Show and Barack Obama's Comic Critique of Whiteness: An Intersection of Popular and Political Rhetoric -- Index -- About the ContributorsThe Daily Show and Rhetoric approaches the popular program from a scholarly, rhetorical perspective to uncover the rhetorical nature of the show. Using a variety of rhetorical methods, the book, taken as a whole, concludes that The Daily Show is more that just a show designed to make the audience laugh; it's designed to make the audience think.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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