Readings In Propaganda And Persuasion: New And Classic Essays

Description:
Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays is a unique, interdisciplinary collection that brings together contemporary and classic readings to provide significant insights into the practice and theory of propaganda and persuasion. The contents range from seminal essays to articles by well-known writers on propaganda to new essays about responses to contemporary issues and events. This engaging anthology also includes analyses of the relationship between rhetoric, propaganda, and persuasion. Key Features: * Offers Informative Historical Articles: A series of articles lends perspectives on propaganda at the time of the American Revolution, World Wars I and II, Communist Soviet Union, the Vietnam War, and brainwashing in the Korean War. * Provides New and Original Essays: New material is included on contemporary issues and events such as a response to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the treatment of the women of Afghanistan, public diplomacy as propaganda, the influence of the built environment, and brainwashing.* Includes Reprints of Classic Essays by Major Theorists: Kenneth Burke's brilliant analysis of the rhetoric of 'Mein Kampf 'and Jacques Ellul's foundational essay on the meaning of propaganda provide theoretical groundwork for the study of propaganda. In addition, a wide range of essays by well-known theorists examine propaganda in movies, global television, third wave propaganda, public relations as propaganda, the rhetoric of the Third Reich, and contemporary propaganda. Intended Audience: Perfect supplementary text to the Fourth Edition of Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell's text Propaganda and Persuasion; as well as an excellent stand alone text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Persuasion and Propaganda, Rhetoric, and Mass Communications

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1: The Characteristics of Propaganda - Jacques Ellul Chapter 2: A Prolegomenon to the Future Study of Rhetoric and Propaganda: Critical Foundations - Beth S. Bennett & Sean Patrick O'Rourke Chapter 3: War Propaganda and the American Revolution: The Pen and the Sword - Gladys Thum and Marcella Thum Chapter 4: We Become Propagandists - Thomas C. Sorenson Chapter 5: The Bolshevik Revolution and the War of Ideologies (1917-39) - Philip Taylor Chapter 6: Restructuring the Means of Communication in Nazi Germany - David A. Welch Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Hitler's 'Battle' - Kenneth Burke Chapter 8: 'Why We Fight': Social Engineering for a Democratic Society at War - David Culbert Chapter 9: The Function of Psychological Warfare - Paul M.A. Linebarger Chapter 10: Brainwashing: The Korean POW Controversy and the Origins of a Myth - Garth S. Jowett Chapter 11: The Influence of the Built Environment - Victoria O'Donnell Chapter 12: U.S. Public Diplomacy: Its History, Problems, and Promise - Nancy Snow Chapter 13: Visualizing Absence: The Function of Visual Metaphors in the Efforts to Make a Fitting Response to 9/11 - Stuart J. Kaplan Chapter 14: Evening Gowns to Burqas: The Propaganda of Fame - Margaret Cavin

Author Biography:
Garth Jowett is Professor of Communications at the University of Houston. He obtained his Ph.D. in communications from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as Director for Social Research for the Canadian government's Department of Communication and has been a consultant to various international communication agencies. He has been widely published in the area of popular culture and the history of communication. His book Film: The Democratic Art (1976) was a benchmark in firm history. His other publications include Movies as Mass Communication; children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Studies; and his forthcoming 4th edition of Propaganda and Persuasion with Victoria O'Donnell. He is Advisory Editor of Sage's Foundations of Popular Culture Series as well on the boards of several communication and film journals. Victoria O'Donnell is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University Honors Program Professor of Communication at Montana State University-Bozeman. Previously she was the Chair of the Department of Speech Communication at Oregon State University and Chair of the Department of Communication and Public Address at the University of North Texas. In 1988 she taught for the American Institute of Foreign Studies at the University of London. She received her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. She has published articles and chapters in a wide range of journals and books on topics concerning persuasion, the social effects of media, women in film and television, British politics, Nazi propaganda, collective memory, cultural studies theory, and science fiction films of the 1950s. She is also the author (with June Kable) of Persuasion: An Interactive-Dependency Approach, Propaganda and Persuasion (with Garth Jowett), and Speech Communication. She is currently writing a book on television criticism. She made a film, Women, War, and Work: Shaping Space for Productivity in the Shipyards During World War II, for PBS through KUSM Public Television at Montana State University. She has written television scripts for environmental films and has done voice-overs for several PBS films. She served on editorial boards of several journals. She's the recipient of numerous research grants, honors, and teaching awards, including being awarded the Honor Professorship at North Texas State University and the Montana State University Alumni Association and Bozeman Chamber of Commerce Award of Excellence. She has been a Danforth Foundation Associate and a Summer Scholar of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has taught in Germany and has been a visiting lecturer at universities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Wales. She has also served as a private consultant to the U.S. government, a state senator, the tobacco litigation plaintiffs, and many American corporations.