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Table of Contents
Introduction Editor’s Note (Kathleen Glenister Roberts)
Part I: Rhetoric
1. Improving Your Speech Delivery with Modern Family and Friends (Nancy Bressler)
2. Life as Performance—Dramatism and the Music of Lady Gaga (Jake Dionne & Joe Hatfield)
3. “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose”—Finding the God-Terms in Friday Night Lights (Gerald J. Hickly III)
4. Understanding Ceremonial Speech through Fantasy Literature (Kathleen Glenister Roberts)
5. Winning Isn’t Everything—Credibility, Leadership, and Virtue in HBO’s Game of Thrones (Elena C. Strauman)
Part II: Culture
6. “Let it go, let it go”—Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in Disney’s Frozen (Janelle Applequist)
7. Mockingjays and Silent Salutes—Introducing Semiotics through The Hunger Games (Claudia Bucciferro)
8. Understanding Stuart Hall’s “Encoding/Decoding” Model through TV’s Breaking Bad (Garret Castleberry)
9. Postmodern Theory and Hip-Hop Cultural Discourse (Hunter H. Fine)
10. Seen but Not Heard—Exploring Muted Group Theory in Pixar’s The Incredibles, WALL-E, and Brave (Bruce W. Finklea & Sally Bennett Hardig)
11. Knope vs. Pope: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Scandal vs. Parks & Recreation (Krystal Fogle)
Part III: Media and Technology
12. The Smartphone as Permanent Substitute Teacher (Brian Gilchrist)
13. Media and Technology—Metal and Mutation in the X-Men Films (Paul A. Lucas)
14. Hashtag Television Advertising—The Multistep Flow of Millennial TV Usage, Commercial Viewing, and Social Media Interaction (Andrew Sharma & Chrys Egan)
15. Zombie Apocalypse, Haitian Vodou, and Media Ecology—A Cautionary Tale for Our Technological Future (Brent Sleasman)
16. Uses and Gratifications Theory in How I Met Your Mother—True Story (Linnea Sudduth Ward)
Part IV: Interpersonal Communication
17: “Don’t Open, Dead Inside”—External and Internal Noise in The Walking Dead (Andrew Cole & Bob DuBois)
18. Hook, Line, and Sinker—Theories of Interpersonal Deception and Manipulation in Catfish (Holly Holladay & Sara Trask)
19. “Got a Secret. Can You Keep It?”—Pretty Little Liars, Friendship, and Privacy Management (Alysa Ann Lucas)
20. Social Penetration Theory and Relationship Formation in Harry Potter (Kelli Jean K. Smith & Sharmila Pixy Ferris)
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