Trevor Parry-Giles
Biographic Data
| ID | 3042901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trevor Parry-Giles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trevor |
| FAMILY NAME | Parry-Giles |
| SIGNATURE | PARRY-GILES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Envisioning a Remembered Future: The Rhetorical Life and Times of The Manchurian Candidate
This article explores the rhetorical life and times of “the Manchurian candidate” in America’s rhetorical/political culture. It specifically addresses the lasting capacity of the “Manchurian candidate” to operate as a political trope, a signifier divorced fully from its original signified, yet still filled with meaning and power, particularly for ordering conspiracy rhetorics in contemporary political campaigns as an emblem of the “paranoid style…
Crafting character, moving history: John McCain’s political identity in the 2008 presidential campaign
A recurring critique of American campaigns is the normative assumption that campaigns, particularly at the presidential level, ought to concern important matters of public policy and that voter decision-making and judgment ought to be only, or primarily, based upon the considered judgment of public policy positions and platforms. This essay impiously seeks to bring history, theory, and possibility to the analysis of campaign practice in the servi…
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Expanding the Discipline's Debate Contributions: New Potentials, Beyond Effects
This response to Kathleen Hall Jamieson's “The Discipline's Debate Contributions” brings forth, via a sampling of existing literature, those research trajectories about political debates ignored or minimized by Professor Jamieson as those trajectories hold true to the values and traditions of the Communication discipline and as they operate alongside the literature she surveys about debate effects. In particular, we suggest that political debates…
From tweets to movements: Celebrity Power and the Modern Police State
In the summer of 2014, celebrity power directly and powerfully engaged police power. In July, a New York City police officer killed a middle-aged African-American man, Eric Garner, by putting him i
Harry Potterand the paradoxical critique of celebrity culture
This essay identifies and examines the ways in which the Harry Potter novels speak to the culture industry and offer a commentary on a specific dimension of cultural production in contemporary society, namely the identification and construction of celebrity. Specifically, the essay explores how Harry Potter as a character in a fictional, magical world, negotiates his own cultural celebrity. As she depicts Harry struggling with his own celebrity s…
"Resisting a "Treacherous Piety: Issues, Images, and Public Policy Deliberation in Presidential Campaigns
In this essay I explore the ways in which the issue/image dichotomy operates as a default criticism of democratic practice by examining its basis in persistent tensions and idealistic theories of democracy. Turning to political practice, I then explore the articulation and value of political image rhetorics offered during the 2008 presidential election, paying particular attention to political advertisements from the Obama and McCain campaigns th…
Meta-Imaging, The War Room, and the Hyperreality of U.S. Politics
In this essay we explore a new form of political communication, the meta-image, or the communicative act whereby political campaigns and their chroniclers publicly display and foreground the art and practice of political image construction. We examine a compelling example of meta-imaging—the 1993 film, The War Room. We identify how the film functions as a reflection of the hyperreality of U.S. politics. We then argue that The War Room, through th…
From tweets to movements: Celebrity Power and the Modern Police State
In the summer of 2014, celebrity power directly and powerfully engaged police power. In July, a New York City police officer killed a middle-aged African-American man, Eric Garner, by putting him i
"Resisting a "Treacherous Piety: Issues, Images, and Public Policy Deliberation in Presidential Campaigns
In this essay I explore the ways in which the issue/image dichotomy operates as a default criticism of democratic practice by examining its basis in persistent tensions and idealistic theories of democracy. Turning to political practice, I then explore the articulation and value of political image rhetorics offered during the 2008 presidential election, paying particular attention to political advertisements from the Obama and McCain campaigns th…
Crafting character, moving history: John McCain’s political identity in the 2008 presidential campaign
A recurring critique of American campaigns is the normative assumption that campaigns, particularly at the presidential level, ought to concern important matters of public policy and that voter decision-making and judgment ought to be only, or primarily, based upon the considered judgment of public policy positions and platforms. This essay impiously seeks to bring history, theory, and possibility to the analysis of campaign practice in the servi…
Meta-Imaging, The War Room, and the Hyperreality of U.S. Politics
In this essay we explore a new form of political communication, the meta-image, or the communicative act whereby political campaigns and their chroniclers publicly display and foreground the art and practice of political image construction. We examine a compelling example of meta-imaging—the 1993 film, The War Room. We identify how the film functions as a reflection of the hyperreality of U.S. politics. We then argue that The War Room, through th…
"Resisting a "Treacherous Piety: Issues, Images, and Public Policy Deliberation in Presidential Campaigns
In this essay I explore the ways in which the issue/image dichotomy operates as a default criticism of democratic practice by examining its basis in persistent tensions and idealistic theories of democracy. Turning to political practice, I then explore the articulation and value of political image rhetorics offered during the 2008 presidential election, paying particular attention to political advertisements from the Obama and McCain campaigns th…
Harry Potterand the paradoxical critique of celebrity culture
This essay identifies and examines the ways in which the Harry Potter novels speak to the culture industry and offer a commentary on a specific dimension of cultural production in contemporary society, namely the identification and construction of celebrity. Specifically, the essay explores how Harry Potter as a character in a fictional, magical world, negotiates his own cultural celebrity. As she depicts Harry struggling with his own celebrity s…
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Expanding the Discipline's Debate Contributions: New Potentials, Beyond Effects
This response to Kathleen Hall Jamieson's “The Discipline's Debate Contributions” brings forth, via a sampling of existing literature, those research trajectories about political debates ignored or minimized by Professor Jamieson as those trajectories hold true to the values and traditions of the Communication discipline and as they operate alongside the literature she surveys about debate effects. In particular, we suggest that political debates…
From tweets to movements: Celebrity Power and the Modern Police State
In the summer of 2014, celebrity power directly and powerfully engaged police power. In July, a New York City police officer killed a middle-aged African-American man, Eric Garner, by putting him i
Crafting character, moving history: John McCain’s political identity in the 2008 presidential campaign
A recurring critique of American campaigns is the normative assumption that campaigns, particularly at the presidential level, ought to concern important matters of public policy and that voter decision-making and judgment ought to be only, or primarily, based upon the considered judgment of public policy positions and platforms. This essay impiously seeks to bring history, theory, and possibility to the analysis of campaign practice in the servi…
Envisioning a Remembered Future: The Rhetorical Life and Times of The Manchurian Candidate
This article explores the rhetorical life and times of “the Manchurian candidate” in America’s rhetorical/political culture. It specifically addresses the lasting capacity of the “Manchurian candidate” to operate as a political trope, a signifier divorced fully from its original signified, yet still filled with meaning and power, particularly for ordering conspiracy rhetorics in contemporary political campaigns as an emblem of the “paranoid style…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Normative (3 works)