Television and Political Advertising: Volume Ii: Signs, Codes, and Images

by Biocca,Frank; Biocca,Frank

• ISBN13: 9780805806625
• ISBN10: 0805806628
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume represents one of the first major scholarly efforts to unravel the psychological and symbolic processing of political advertising. Utilizing survey, experimental, qualitative, and semiotic methodologies to study this phenomenon, the contributors to Television and Political Advertisingtrace how political ads help to interpret the psychological reality of the presidential campaign in the minds of millions of voters. A product of the National Political Advertising Research Project, this interdisciplinary effort is valuable to researchers in advertising, communication, and consumer psychology since it helps define future work on the relationship between television, politics, and the mind of the voter. This volume, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, Codes and Images, is the second of two, and covers such areas as Generating Meaning in the Pursuit of Power, Analyses of the Meaning of Political Ads, The Campaign Documentary as an Ad, and Regulating Signs and Images.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Generating Meaning in the Pursuit of Power	p. 1
What is the Language of Political Advertising?	p. 3
References	p. 9
Some Limitations of Earlier """"Symbolic"""" Approaches to Political Communication	p. 11
References	p. 15
Looking for Units of Meaning in Political Ads	p. 17
References	p. 24
The Role of Communication Codes in Political Ads	p. 27
References	p. 40
The Analysis of Discourses Within the Political Ad	p. 45
References	p. 57
The Orchestration of Codes and Discourses: Analysis of Semantic Framing	p. 61
References	p. 87
Analyses of the Meaning of Political Ads	p. 91
Bad Signs and Cryptic Codes in a Postmodern World: a Semiotic Analysis of the Dukakis Advertising	p. 93
Acknowledgments	p. 112
References	p. 113
Appendix: Dukakis Advertisement Titles	p. 113
Burke's Sociological Criticism Applied to Political Advertising: an Anecdotal Taxonomy of Presidential Commercials	p. 115
References	p. 130
Issue Content and Legitimacy in 1988 Televised Political Advertising: Hubris and Synecdoche in Promoting Presidential Candidates	p. 133
References	p. 160
Toward an Integration of Textual and Response Analysis Applied to the 1988 Presidential Campaign	p. 163
References	p. 183
The Campaign Documentary as an Ad	p. 185
The Political Campaign Film: Epideictic Rhetoric in a Documentary Frame	p. 187
References	p. 200
Network Coverage of Video Politics: """"A New Beginning"""" in the Limits of Criticism	p. 203
References	p. 227
Regulating Signs and Images	p. 229
Symbolic Speech in Political Advertising: Encroaching Legal Barriers	p. 231
References	p. 253
Author Index	p. 257
Subject Index	p. 263
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