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UNINA9910454942103321 |
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Phillips Kendall R |
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Controversial cinema [[electronic resource] ] : the films that outraged America / / Kendall R. Phillips |
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Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2008 |
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1-282-56614-8 |
9786612566141 |
1-56720-724-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Sensationalism in motion pictures |
Motion pictures - Censorship - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Censorship, Culture, and Controversy; Chapter 2: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs; Chapter 3: Violence and Crime: Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers; Chapter 4: Race and Ethnicity: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing; Chapter 5: Religion: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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At the heart of any history of controversial films is a strange paradox: while films, especially popular and mainstream films, are often portrayed as meaningless products of popular culture, those popular films involved in public controversies become the focal point of enormous cultural energy, political attention, and profoundly conflicting sets of principles. The ongoing culture wars continue to shape the American political landscape, and controversial films continue to be a major point of conflict. Controversial Cinema: The Films that Outraged America traces the history of controversial fil |
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UNINA9910816571303321 |
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Hewett Beth L. |
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A scholarly edition of Samuel P. Newman's A practical system of rhetoric / / Beth L. Hewett |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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1 online resource (428 pages) |
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International Studies in the History of Rhetoric ; ; Volume 13 |
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English language - 19th century - Rhetoric |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"In A Scholarly Edition of Samuel P. Newman's A Practical System of Rhetoric, Beth L. Hewett argues that Newman, an American nineteenth-century rhetorician, has been unfairly judged by criteria disconnected from his goals and accomplishments. His exceptionally popular textbook is important for how he engaged received theory, fit practice to the era, struggled with age-old questions of thought and language, and spoke to his readers. He operationalized the concept of taste, giving it functionality for invention, and inflected Belletrism with American illustrations suited to the nascent, uniquely American communicative requirements of a democracy. Hewett's modern scholarly edition contextualizes this book as the serious work of a scholar-educator, demonstrating its values in the context of nineteenth-century American rhetorical and textbook history"-- |
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