The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics
The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics
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This volume focuses on the connection between style and politics. Commentaries on the styles of political candidates seem to outpace serious discussions of policy and credentials; politicians and commentators alike parse Barack Obama's ability to manipulate stylistic dimensions of race, class, and national origin. Political battles continue to rage in France over whether Islamic women may wear head coverings. The contributors to this volume treat two different though related meanings of the term 'politics.' The first of these is the conventional electoral politics, in which critics may argue about whether a 'feminine style' can ever carry a national election. The second meaning refers to politics in the sense of everyday struggles over power. In this sense there is a politics in the style expected of corporate boardroom behavior, which excludes and disempowers those who display a style of the streets. As the volume's careful analysis demonstrates, both aspects of politics are very much connected to style.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Introduction: Politics and the Rhetoric of Style
Part 3 Part I: Style in the rhetoric of politics
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Preserving America: The Tea Party Movement and the Cultivation of Revolutionary Conservatism
Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Stylizing Sotomayor: Style as Rhetoric of Caricatures
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Political Style for the People: Nonviolence as Political Power
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: The Narcissistic Style of American Politics: The Rhetorical Appeal of Sarah Palin
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Experiential Political Style: Oprah Winfrey's Identification with the Electorate
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Read Her Pins: Analyzing Madeleine Albright's Brooches as a Means of Procuring Space for Women in Politics through Image and Aesthetics
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: The Decider and The Debater: George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Two Very Different Democratic Styles
Part 11 Part II: Style in the politics of culture
Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Rhetoric of Style for a New Millennium: Project Runway's Tim Gunn as Apocalyptic Prophet
Chapter 13 Chapter 9: The Roots of Style: Hair, Cultural Politics, and Epideictic Rhetoric
Chapter 14 Chapter 10: On Drawing Knives and Experience: The Rise of the Ekphrastic Text in Bravo's Top Chef
Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Style as Othering: Authenticity, Class, and Identity in Meet the Natives, U.S.A.
Chapter 16 Chapter 12: The First Amendment and Rhetorical Style: The Politics of School Dress Codes
Chapter 17 Chapter 13: Sinister Surfaces and the Style of Simulacra in the Modern "Stylized" Horror Film
Chapter 18 Chapter 14: Ce n'est pas une pipe. C'est rhétorique
Chapter 19 Chapter 15: 15: Eccentri(cities): The Rhetoric of Style Through the Lens of the Weird
Chapter 20 Chapter 16: Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Commemoration, Camp, and Countering the Traumatic
Chapter 21 Chapter 17: A Politics of Affectation, Or, How to Out-dead the Undead
Chapter 22 Chapter 18: Quaffable, but uh…far from transcendent: Wine, Rhetorical Style and Politics
Product details
| Published | 12 May 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 322 |
| ISBN | 9780739169353 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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