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Examines political rhetoric at the grassroots level. This work argues that a true understanding of the democratic body politic becomes most intelligible through a close study of its parts.

Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. This book argues that the Food and Drug Administration, by employing images that specifically depict gay men as contagious, has categorized gay men as a menace to the nation.

"Brummett's exciting volume challenges us to acknowledge the necessarily subversive elements implicated in the study of popular culture.... His book is much more than a study of the persuasive elements of nontraditional rhetorical forms, and more than a study of the rhetorical aspects of film, television or the mass media. Brummett's argument represents the theoretical and critical framework for a new perspective on what it means to "be rhetorical" in a media age.... What Brummett has provided is no less than a theoretical rationale for the study of popular culture as well as a beginning framework of how to undertake that study. For students of the rhetoric of popular culture, this volume is necessary. For others, certainly its first three chapters are provocative in the way they challenge accepted issues within the ancient tradition of rhetorical theory and criticism." - Quarterly Journal of Speech "A timely study of rhetoric and popular culture that could be successfully used by various [scholars] interested in ethics, communications, popular culture social influences, and rhetoric." - Popular Culture in Libraries"

Although computer games are essentially impractical, they are nevertheless important mediating agents for the broad exercise of socio-political power. In considering how the languages, images, gestures, and sounds of video games influence those who play them, McAllister highlights the ways in which ideology is coded into games.

Offers a critique of the arguments for waging war on Iraq, an examination of the foreign policy principles driving that war, an analysis of the economic dilemmas of globalization, and an expose of the inner workings of the reconstruction of Iraq. This book's appendix offers a guide to the anti-war and anti-corporate globalization movements.

Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the "Wobblies" generated novel forms of class struggle.

As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. Essays contained in this volume address issues such as the scope of public memory, the ways we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the material practices of memory.