The Daily Show and Rhetoric Arguments, Issues, and Strategies

by Goodnow, Trischa; Barbur, Jonathan E.; Buerkle, C Wesley; Compton, Josh; Hess, Aaron; Kaylor, Brian T.; McGeough, Ryan Erik; Mullen, Lawrence J.; Purtle, Stephanie M.; Self, John W.; Spicer, Robert; Steffensmeier, Timothy; Wiesman, Penina; Wilz, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9780739150030
• ISBN10: 0739150030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-31
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

The Daily Show and Rhetoric approaches the popular program from a scholarly, rhetorical perspective to uncover the rhetorical nature of the show. Using a variety of rhetorical methods, the book, taken as a whole, concludes that The Daily Show is more that just a show designed to make the audience laugh; it's designed to make the audience think.

Author Biography

Trischa Goodnow is associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Oregon State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Daily Show and Rhetoric-Arguments, Issues, and Strategies	p. xi
The Nature of the Beast
The Arete of Amusement: An Aristotelian Perspective on the Ethos of The Daily Show	p. 3
Before and After The Daily Show: Freedom and Consequences in Political Satire	p. 19
Cramer vs. (Jon Stewart's Characterization of) Cramer: Image Repair Rhetoric, Late Night Political Humor, and The Daily Show	p. 43
Arguments
The (not-so) Laughable Political Argument: A Close-Textual Analysis of The Daily Show	p. 59
Models of Democratic Deliberation: Pharmacodynamic Agonism in The Daily Show	p. 77
Purifying Laughter: Carnivalesque Self-Parody as Argument Scheme in The Daily Show	p. 93
The Voice of the People: Jon Stewart, Public Argument, and Political Satire	p. 113
Strategies
We Frame to Please: A Preliminary Examination of The Daily Show's Use of Frames	p. 131
Breaking News: A Postmodern Rhetorical Analysis of The Daily Show	p. 153
Visual Aspects of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	p. 171
Issues
Gaywatch: A Burkean Frame Analysis of The Daily Show's Treatment of Queer Topics	p. 189
Modern Hebrew Prophets? The Daily Show and Religious Satire	p. 207
The Daily Show and Barack Obama's Comic Critique of Whiteness: An Intersection of Popular and Political Rhetoric	p. 223
Index	p. 241
About the Contributors	p. 257
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