American heroes in a media age / edited by Susan J. Drucker, Robert S. Cathcart. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cresskill, New Jersey : Hampton Press, (c)1994.Description: viii, 342 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E169.C362.A447 1994
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Contents:
Heroes: a communication perspective -- Are heroes always men? -- From hero to celebrity: the media connection -- The wrinkle theory: the deconsecration of the hero -- The life and death of media friends: new genres of intimacy and mourning -- The mediated sports hero -- The making of a journalistic celebrity, 1963 -- Autobiography, cultural mythology and the modern hero -- Iacocca: Chrysler's mass-mediated hero (1979-1983) -- Phyllis Schlafly: great mother, heroine, villain -- Rhetorical devices for hero making: Charles Lindbergh and John F. Kennedy -- From celebrity entrepreneur to civic hero: Donald Trump's campaign of self-transformation -- Theorizing postmodern stars: George Michael and Madonna -- From wild western prodigy to the ageless wonder: the mediated evolution of Nolan Ryan -- Jimmy Swaggart as hero: people of a narrative tradition -- The celebrity and the fan: a media relationship -- Who are the Puerto Rican heroes?: a cross- cultural study -- Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes: Bruce Springsteen, popular music and the hero/celebrity.
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The hero as a communication phenonmenon -- Heroes: a communication perspective -- Are heroes always men? -- From hero to celebrity: the media connection -- The wrinkle theory: the deconsecration of the hero -- The life and death of media friends: new genres of intimacy and mourning -- The mediated sports hero -- The making of a journalistic celebrity, 1963 -- Autobiography, cultural mythology and the modern hero -- Iacocca: Chrysler's mass-mediated hero (1979-1983) -- Phyllis Schlafly: great mother, heroine, villain -- Rhetorical devices for hero making: Charles Lindbergh and John F. Kennedy -- From celebrity entrepreneur to civic hero: Donald Trump's campaign of self-transformation -- Theorizing postmodern stars: George Michael and Madonna -- From wild western prodigy to the ageless wonder: the mediated evolution of Nolan Ryan -- Jimmy Swaggart as hero: people of a narrative tradition -- The celebrity and the fan: a media relationship -- Who are the Puerto Rican heroes?: a cross- cultural study -- Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes: Bruce Springsteen, popular music and the hero/celebrity.

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