Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious social and political issues when we examine them more closely. Using methods of formal analysis, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise offers students and scholars a key to unlocking hidden text that abounds in popular culture.

Barry Brummett is the Charles Sapp Centennial Professor in Communication Emeritus of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1978 and taught at Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin before coming to the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, retiring in 2022. Brummett has authored, coauthored, or edited numerous articles, scholarly essays, and books, including Rhetoric of Style, Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk, Contemporary Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Techniques of Close Reading, Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics, and The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics. His research pursuits include the rhetoric of popular culture, epistemology, and the theories of Kenneth Burke.

Social Issues in Disguise: An Introduction to Sneaky Rhetoric - Barry Brummett
Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning - Kristen Hoerl
Limited Representation: A Homology of Discriminatory Media Portrayals of Little People and African Americans - Lisa Glebatis Perks, Luke Winslow, Sharon Avital
Whispers of a Racial Past: Forms of White Liberal History in The Horse Whisperer - Barry Brummett
The Evil Albino: Cinematic Othering and Scapegoating of Extreme Whites - Lisa Glebatis Perks
Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants? Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, "Hate Crimes," and Stranger Rape - Kathryn M. Olson
Classy Morality: The Rhetoric of Joel Osteen - Luke Winslow
The Re-Visioned American Dream: The Wildlife Documentary Form as Conservative Nostalgia - Angela J. Aguayo
Weathering the Storm: Pirates of the Caribbean and Transnational Corporatism - E. Johanna Hartelius
A Hystery of Colonial Witchcraft: Witch-Hunt Tourism and Commemoration in Salem, Massachusetts - Roger Gatchet
Outing the Marlboro Man: Issues of Masculinity and Class Closeted in Brokeback Mountain - Teresita Garza
Making Gay Sense of the X-Men - William Earnest
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