The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics understands style as the intersection of communication, culture, commodification, and aesthetics. Chapters study a wide range of ways that style intersects with politics in popular culture.

Part 1 Preface: The Problems and Promises of Rhetorical Style Part 2 Introduction: Politics and the Rhetoric of Style Part 3 Part I: Style in the rhetoric of politics Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Preserving America: The Tea Party Movement and the Cultivation of Revolutionary Conservatism Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Stylizing Sotomayor: Style as Rhetoric of Caricatures Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Political Style for the People: Nonviolence as Political Power Chapter 7 Chapter 4: The Narcissistic Style of American Politics: The Rhetorical Appeal of Sarah Palin Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Experiential Political Style: Oprah Winfrey's Identification with the Electorate Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Read Her Pins: Analyzing Madeleine Albright's Brooches as a Means of Procuring Space for Women in Politics through Image and Aesthetics Chapter 10 Chapter 7: The Decider and The Debater: George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Two Very Different Democratic Styles Part 11 Part II: Style in the politics of culture Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Rhetoric of Style for a New Millennium: Project Runway's Tim Gunn as Apocalyptic Prophet Chapter 13 Chapter 9: The Roots of Style: Hair, Cultural Politics, and Epideictic Rhetoric Chapter 14 Chapter 10: On Drawing Knives and Experience: The Rise of the Ekphrastic Text in Bravo's Top Chef Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Style as Othering: Authenticity, Class, and Identity in Meet the Natives, U.S.A. Chapter 16 Chapter 12: The First Amendment and Rhetorical Style: The Politics of School Dress Codes Chapter 17 Chapter 13: Sinister Surfaces and the Style of Simulacra in the Modern "Stylized" Horror Film Chapter 18 Chapter 14: Ce n'est pas une pipe. C'est rhétorique Chapter 19 Chapter 15: 15: Eccentri(cities): The Rhetoric of Style Through the Lens of the Weird Chapter 20 Chapter 16: Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Commemoration, Camp, and Countering the Traumatic Chapter 21 Chapter 17: A Politics of Affectation, Or, How to Out-dead the Undead Chapter 22 Chapter 18: Quaffable, but uh...far from transcendent: Wine, Rhetorical Style and Politics

Edited by Barry Brummett - Contributions by Jennifer J. Asenas; Barry Brummett; Jay P. Childers; Joe Faina; Teresita Garza; Amanda Davis Gatchet; Carlnita P. Greene; Kevin A. Johnson; Ashley Noel Mack; Tiara Naputi; Matthew B. Morris; Clariza Ruiz De Cast