The Daily Show and Rhetoric Arguments, Issues, and Strategies
by Goodnow, Trischa; Barbur, Jonathan E.; Buerkle, C Wesley; Compton, Josh; Hess, Aaron; Kaylor, Brian T.; McGeough, Ryan Erik; Mullen, Lawrence J.; Purtle, Stephanie M.; Self, John W.; Spicer, Robert; Steffensmeier, Timothy; Wiesman, Penina; Wilz, KellyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-03-31
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Trischa Goodnow is associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Oregon State University.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Daily Show and Rhetoric-Arguments, Issues, and Strategies | p. xi |
| The Nature of the Beast | |
| The Arete of Amusement: An Aristotelian Perspective on the Ethos of The Daily Show | p. 3 |
| Before and After The Daily Show: Freedom and Consequences in Political Satire | p. 19 |
| Cramer vs. (Jon Stewart's Characterization of) Cramer: Image Repair Rhetoric, Late Night Political Humor, and The Daily Show | p. 43 |
| Arguments | |
| The (not-so) Laughable Political Argument: A Close-Textual Analysis of The Daily Show | p. 59 |
| Models of Democratic Deliberation: Pharmacodynamic Agonism in The Daily Show | p. 77 |
| Purifying Laughter: Carnivalesque Self-Parody as Argument Scheme in The Daily Show | p. 93 |
| The Voice of the People: Jon Stewart, Public Argument, and Political Satire | p. 113 |
| Strategies | |
| We Frame to Please: A Preliminary Examination of The Daily Show's Use of Frames | p. 131 |
| Breaking News: A Postmodern Rhetorical Analysis of The Daily Show | p. 153 |
| Visual Aspects of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | p. 171 |
| Issues | |
| Gaywatch: A Burkean Frame Analysis of The Daily Show's Treatment of Queer Topics | p. 189 |
| Modern Hebrew Prophets? The Daily Show and Religious Satire | p. 207 |
| The Daily Show and Barack Obama's Comic Critique of Whiteness: An Intersection of Popular and Political Rhetoric | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 241 |
| About the Contributors | p. 257 |
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