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America Animated: Nationalist Ideology in Warner Brothers' Animaniacs 

Rector, Megan (2008-12-15)
Television cartoons help to construct and maintain our perceptions of social reality. A depth hermeneutic approach for studying the Warner Brothers’ cartoon, Animaniacs, is described. Analysis of episodes featuring Yakko, ...

Burke's Rhetoric of Reorientation in Hank Williams' Honky-Tonk Performance 

Robinson, Gregory (2009-07-23)
Music can be a powerful form of constitutive rhetoric. Country music has garnered little attention from rhetoricians despite being a highly adaptive folk-form through the first half of the 20th century. In particular, the ...

Humanizing the Gangster: An Examination into the Character from Hawks’ to DePalma’s Scarface 

Kirby, Nicholas (2008-08-15)
This thesis determines why the film gangster gained acceptance in American society through an examination of both the 1932 and 1983 versions of Scarface. The gangster depicted in the earlier film was characterized as a ...

It's a Man's World: Representations of Gender and Competing Ideologies in 'Shaun of the Dead' 

Stull, Gretchen (2008-08-15)
This thesis utilizes a gender media studies approach to analyze the 2004 British film Shaun of the Dead. Blending several film genres, Shaun of the Dead is counted among a small but growing sub-subgenre of film known as ...

NASA's Hidden Power: NACA/NASA Public Relations and the Cold War, 1945-1967 

Starr, Kristen (2008-12-15)
During the 1960s, NASA’s human spaceflight program commanded national and international attention. The program created American images infused with heroic values. What were these images? How and why did the process of image ...