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Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
Rhetorics of Display
Groundbreaking case studies mapping the rhetoric inherent in acts of presentation and concealment
Rhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes to the merchandising of consumer goods. The volume provides an integrated, comprehensive study of the processes of selecting what to reveal and what to conceal that together constitute the rhetorics of display. Surveying major historical transformations in the relationship between rhetoric and display, this book also identifies the leading themes in relevant scholarship of the past three decades.
Seventeen case studies canvass a representative and diverse range of displays―from body piercing to a civil rights memorial to a Titanic exhibition to imagery found in gambling casinos―and examine the ways that phenomena, persons, places, events, identities, communities, and cultures are exhibited before audiences. Collectively the contributors shed light on rhetorics that are nearly ubiquitous in contemporary communication and culture.
Rhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes to the merchandising of consumer goods. The volume provides an integrated, comprehensive study of the processes of selecting what to reveal and what to conceal that together constitute the rhetorics of display. Surveying major historical transformations in the relationship between rhetoric and display, this book also identifies the leading themes in relevant scholarship of the past three decades.
Seventeen case studies canvass a representative and diverse range of displays―from body piercing to a civil rights memorial to a Titanic exhibition to imagery found in gambling casinos―and examine the ways that phenomena, persons, places, events, identities, communities, and cultures are exhibited before audiences. Collectively the contributors shed light on rhetorics that are nearly ubiquitous in contemporary communication and culture.
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472 pages, Paperback
First published May 5, 2006
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May 22, 2010
Solid book about visual rhetorics--like all collections of academic essays, some are well-written on interesting topics, some are poorly-written on interesting topics, some are well-written on uninteresting topics, and some (alas) are poorly-written on uninteresting topics. But which are which will vary by reader. I found a discussion of ocean cartography surprisingly gripping, for example! And the analysis of the picture of the man staring down down the tanks in Tienanmen Square was well-done. There are various interesting examples.
June 13, 2008
A collection of articles about visual rhetoric. Eye opening.
June 26, 2013
Useful if you a are researching body art.
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