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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john c tedesco”
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  • The 2012 Presidential Campaign

    A Communication Perspective

    by Rachel Holloway, Gwen Brown, Henry C. Kenski, Kate M. Kenski, Craig Allen Smith, John C. Tedesco, Scott W. Dunn, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ben Voth, John Allen Hendricks, Joseph M. Valenzano III, Jason A. Edwards ...
    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results of the election, to make sense of the “political bits” of communication that comprise our voting ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Stand Up

    The Craft of Comedy

    by John Gronbeck-Tedesco, Rachel E. Blackburn ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Stand Up is a practical and engaging guide to mastering the art of stand-up comedy. This book equips readers with the tools to craft and deliver jokes that resonate with audiences.It introduces eight essential strategies—anxiety triggers, exaggeration, self-defeat, tone, persona, crossing contexts, continuation, and satire—that form the foundation of stand-up comedy. Drawing on decades of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Cuba, the United States, and Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930–1975

    by John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco ...
    This book examines the ways in which Cuba's revolutions of 1933 and 1959 became touchstones for border-crossing endeavors of radical politics and cultural experimentation over the mid-twentieth century. It argues that new networks of solidarity building between US and Cuban allies also brought with them perils and pitfalls that could not be separated from the longer history of US empire in Cuba. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Operation Pedro Pan

    The Migration of Unaccompanied Children from Castro's Cuba

    by Dr. John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco ...
    At the outset the proposal seemed modest: transfer two hundred unaccompanied Cuban children to Miami to save them from communism. The time apart from their parents would be short, only until Fidel Castro fell from power by the result of U.S. force, Cuban counterrevolutionary tactics, or a combination of both. Families would be reunited in a matter of months. A plan was hatched, and it worked—until ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism

    by Katie Barnett, Dustin Gann, Derek McGrath, Brenda Boudreau, Laura Beadling, Keith Friedlander, Mary T. Hartson, Michael Litwack, Maureen McKnight, Pamela Hill Nettleton ...
    This collection of essays presents a sampling of film and television texts, interrogating images of U.S. masculinity. Rather than using “postfeminist” as a definition of contemporary feminism, this collection uses the term to designate the period from the late 1980s on—as a point when feminist thought gradually became more mainstream. The movies and TV series examined here have achieved a level of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

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  • You Didn't Hear This From Me

    (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

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  • War Against All Puerto Ricans

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    Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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