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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christopher j gilbert”
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  • When Comedy Goes Wrong

    by Christopher J. Gilbert ...
    Series series Comedy & Culture
    While conventional wisdom has it that humor embodies a spirit of renewal and humility, a dispirited form of comedy thrives in a media-saturated and politically charged environment.When Comedy Goes Wrong examines how, beginning in the late-twentieth and carrying into the early twenty-first century, a certain comic dispirit found various platforms for disheartening cultural politics. From the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture

    by Christopher J. Gilbert, Joshua Trey Barnett, Joshua Gunn, Kristen E. Hoerl, Claire Sisco King, Calum Lister Matheson, W. Patrick Wade, Valerie N. Wieskamp, Dr. John Louis Lucaites1, Dr. Casey Ryan Kelly2, Dr. Atilla Hallsby3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A critical examination of how pleasure and pain are constructed, represented, and contested within American public culture.Mainstream news and social media often highlight presentations of pain that invite a voyeuristic, pleasurable experience, whether the result of war, disasters, crime, accidents, or other catastrophes. This collection of essays explores pleasurable pains and painful pleasures, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Caricature and National Character

    The United States at War

    by Christopher J. Gilbert ...
    Series series Humor in America
    According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural identity.Tracing the comic representation of American values from the First World War to the War on Terror, Gilbert explores the power of humor in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks

    by Michele Kennerly, Michele Kennerly, Damien Smith Pfister, Damien Smith Pfister, Scott Haden Church, Nathan Crick, Rosa A. Eberly0, Christopher J. Gilbert1, E. Johanna Hartelius2, Ekaterina V. Haskins3, Gaines S. Hubbell4, Jeremy David Johnson5, Arabella Lyon6, Mari Lee Mifsud7, Carolyn R. Miller8, Scott R. Stroud9 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communicationWhat can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we currently deal with—making sense of information abundance, persuading others in our social network, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • In/visible War

    The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America

    by Jon Simons, John Louis Lucaites, Nina Berman, Nina Berman, David Campbell, Christopher J. Gilbert, Jeremy G. Gordon, Rebecca A. Adelman0, Wendy Kozol1, Jody Madeira2, Roger Stahl3, De Witt Douglas Kilgore4, Claudia Breger5, Purnima Bose6, Diane Rubenstein7, James Der Derian8 ...
    Series series War Culture
    In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • Going Nucular

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  • Giving A Damn

    Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

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  • Think Again

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