Shawn J Parry‐gile
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shawn J Parry‐gile |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shawn J |
| FAMILY NAME | Parry‐gile |
| SIGNATURE | GILE S J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9609-6315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The veeps audition—campaign 2020: Disciplining Kamala Harris
This essay spotlights some of the ways that the 2020 presidential campaign reified the sexism and racism baked into American politics. To demonstrate her suitability as Joe Biden’s running mate, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris had to downplay her skill as a prosecutor with political intellect and present herself more as a doting and submissive partner picked out of a group of women vying for Biden’s attention. Such expressions of loyalt…
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign memoirs: A study in contrasting identities
This essay examines the rhetorical identities of Hillary Clinton’s two political memoirs—Living History and Hard Choices. The first spanned her childhood through her years as first lady. The second recounted her tenure as secretary of state. Though both memoirs were written with a past orientation, they also sought to keep alive a future run for the presidency. Situating the two Clinton memoirs in the history of biography, we employ corpus rhetor…
This Is Who We Are!” National Identity Construction and the 2014 Fifa World Cup
Drawing on the literature on American nationalism and the social identity perspective, this study examines the effects of mediasport on nationalized attitudes, using both rhetorical and experimental approaches. First, a rhetorical analysis examined the nationalistic themes featured in the game promotional ad of the United States versus Ghana soccer match in World Cup 2014, linking these themes to the republicanism/liberalism paradox in American p…
Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President
Other| March 01 2015 Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Shawn J. Parry-Giles Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Rhetoric and Political Culture in the Department of Communication and Director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland in College Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David S. Kaufer David S. Kaufer Davi…
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…
Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media - by Amal Al-Malki, David Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki & Kira Dreher
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media Amal Al-Malki, David Kaufer , Suguru Ishizaki & Kira Dreher Bloomsbury, Doha, Qatar, 2012, $44.95 (soft)pp. 466 Shawn J. Parry-Giles Shawn J. Parry-Giles 1University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 62, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages E1–E5, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460…
Lincoln Reminiscences and Nineteenth-Century Portraiture: The Private Virtues of Presidential Character
This essay examines reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln that were published in the aftermath of his death by those who had interacted with Lincoln personally. An understudied genre y Lincoln reminiscences offered judgments of Lincolns character through a portraiture style designed to make salient private as well as public dimensions of his character. We historicize the rhetoric of portraiture and trace the rise of reminiscence out of biography as a …
The “image bite,” political language, and the public/private divide: NBC News coverage of Hillary Clinton from scorned wife to Senate candidate
Voice-overs with muted images, often known as the “image bite,” have become an increasingly used but understudied format of political language by the television news media. Because the media can use images to fit many contexts and purposes of commentary, the media images are susceptible to continuous de-contextualization and re-contextualization. Drawing from theories of feminist critical discourse analysis and gender performance as well as schol…
The west wing's prime‐time presidentiality: Mimesis and catharsis in a postmodern romance
This essay reads the NBC drama The West Wing against the cultural anxieties and ambivalences about the contemporary presidency, arguing that the program presents a powerful and meaningful "presidentiality," a discursive construction of the presidency with ideological and rhetorical relevance. Specifically, The West Wing mimetically captures a view of the presidency, offering, in the process, a romantic vision of the institution that reflects the …
Collective memory, political nostalgia, and the rhetorical presidency: Bill Clinton's commemoration of the March on Washington, August 28, 1998
This essay offers a reading of President Bill Clinton's address on August 28, 1998 in which he commemorates the 35th anniversary of the March on Washington. Specifically, Clinton's August 28th address reveals how the presidency has become a hermeneutic site for the formation of collective memory and political nostalgia. This analysis discusses the uses of political nostalgia for the purposes of political image (re)construction as evidenced by Cli…
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…
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…
Image‐based politics, feminism and the consequences of their convergence
Gendered politics and presidential image construction: A reassessment of the “feminine style”
Current feminist rhetorical scholarship celebrates the presence of the "feminine style" in contemporary political discourse. We argue that such a style potentially masks the reliance of political image construction on a hegemonic masculinity that serves to preserve politics as a patriarchal system. An analysis of five presidential campaign films reveals the utilization of the 'feminine" style in these films and suggests that social constructions …
Rhetorical experimentation and the cold war, 1947–1953: The development of an internationalist approach to propaganda
Because most propaganda scholars examine discourse where audience and propagandist reside in the same society, they conclude that the practice of propaganda is culturally driven. By examining governmental propaganda directed exclusively to an international audience during the early years of the Cold War, this study reveals that propagandists can and do overcome the cultural constraints of language in order to inculcate their values abroad. More s…
Propaganda, effect, and the cold war: Gauging the status of america's “war of words
The article examines the interrelationship among propaganda, effect, and the Cold War during congressional debates over America's first peacetime propaganda program. Although the rise of the communication research paradigm affected the production of statistical evidence to measure the effectiveness of America's Cold War propaganda, this case study argues that the “war of words” metaphor further heightened the need for empirical proof of America's…
Gendered politics and presidential image construction: A reassessment of the “feminine style”
Current feminist rhetorical scholarship celebrates the presence of the "feminine style" in contemporary political discourse. We argue that such a style potentially masks the reliance of political image construction on a hegemonic masculinity that serves to preserve politics as a patriarchal system. An analysis of five presidential campaign films reveals the utilization of the 'feminine" style in these films and suggests that social constructions …
This Is Who We Are!” National Identity Construction and the 2014 Fifa World Cup
Drawing on the literature on American nationalism and the social identity perspective, this study examines the effects of mediasport on nationalized attitudes, using both rhetorical and experimental approaches. First, a rhetorical analysis examined the nationalistic themes featured in the game promotional ad of the United States versus Ghana soccer match in World Cup 2014, linking these themes to the republicanism/liberalism paradox in American p…
The west wing's prime‐time presidentiality: Mimesis and catharsis in a postmodern romance
This essay reads the NBC drama The West Wing against the cultural anxieties and ambivalences about the contemporary presidency, arguing that the program presents a powerful and meaningful "presidentiality," a discursive construction of the presidency with ideological and rhetorical relevance. Specifically, The West Wing mimetically captures a view of the presidency, offering, in the process, a romantic vision of the institution that reflects the …
Propaganda, effect, and the cold war: Gauging the status of america's “war of words
The article examines the interrelationship among propaganda, effect, and the Cold War during congressional debates over America's first peacetime propaganda program. Although the rise of the communication research paradigm affected the production of statistical evidence to measure the effectiveness of America's Cold War propaganda, this case study argues that the “war of words” metaphor further heightened the need for empirical proof of America's…
Lincoln Reminiscences and Nineteenth-Century Portraiture: The Private Virtues of Presidential Character
This essay examines reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln that were published in the aftermath of his death by those who had interacted with Lincoln personally. An understudied genre y Lincoln reminiscences offered judgments of Lincolns character through a portraiture style designed to make salient private as well as public dimensions of his character. We historicize the rhetoric of portraiture and trace the rise of reminiscence out of biography as a …
The “image bite,” political language, and the public/private divide: NBC News coverage of Hillary Clinton from scorned wife to Senate candidate
Voice-overs with muted images, often known as the “image bite,” have become an increasingly used but understudied format of political language by the television news media. Because the media can use images to fit many contexts and purposes of commentary, the media images are susceptible to continuous de-contextualization and re-contextualization. Drawing from theories of feminist critical discourse analysis and gender performance as well as schol…
Collective memory, political nostalgia, and the rhetorical presidency: Bill Clinton's commemoration of the March on Washington, August 28, 1998
This essay offers a reading of President Bill Clinton's address on August 28, 1998 in which he commemorates the 35th anniversary of the March on Washington. Specifically, Clinton's August 28th address reveals how the presidency has become a hermeneutic site for the formation of collective memory and political nostalgia. This analysis discusses the uses of political nostalgia for the purposes of political image (re)construction as evidenced by Cli…
Rhetorical experimentation and the cold war, 1947–1953: The development of an internationalist approach to propaganda
Because most propaganda scholars examine discourse where audience and propagandist reside in the same society, they conclude that the practice of propaganda is culturally driven. By examining governmental propaganda directed exclusively to an international audience during the early years of the Cold War, this study reveals that propagandists can and do overcome the cultural constraints of language in order to inculcate their values abroad. More s…
Rhetorical experimentation and the cold war, 1947–1953: The development of an internationalist approach to propaganda
Because most propaganda scholars examine discourse where audience and propagandist reside in the same society, they conclude that the practice of propaganda is culturally driven. By examining governmental propaganda directed exclusively to an international audience during the early years of the Cold War, this study reveals that propagandists can and do overcome the cultural constraints of language in order to inculcate their values abroad. More s…
Propaganda, effect, and the cold war: Gauging the status of america's “war of words
The article examines the interrelationship among propaganda, effect, and the Cold War during congressional debates over America's first peacetime propaganda program. Although the rise of the communication research paradigm affected the production of statistical evidence to measure the effectiveness of America's Cold War propaganda, this case study argues that the “war of words” metaphor further heightened the need for empirical proof of America's…
Gendered politics and presidential image construction: A reassessment of the “feminine style”
Current feminist rhetorical scholarship celebrates the presence of the "feminine style" in contemporary political discourse. We argue that such a style potentially masks the reliance of political image construction on a hegemonic masculinity that serves to preserve politics as a patriarchal system. An analysis of five presidential campaign films reveals the utilization of the 'feminine" style in these films and suggests that social constructions …
Image‐based politics, feminism and the consequences of their convergence
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…
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…
Collective memory, political nostalgia, and the rhetorical presidency: Bill Clinton's commemoration of the March on Washington, August 28, 1998
This essay offers a reading of President Bill Clinton's address on August 28, 1998 in which he commemorates the 35th anniversary of the March on Washington. Specifically, Clinton's August 28th address reveals how the presidency has become a hermeneutic site for the formation of collective memory and political nostalgia. This analysis discusses the uses of political nostalgia for the purposes of political image (re)construction as evidenced by Cli…
The west wing's prime‐time presidentiality: Mimesis and catharsis in a postmodern romance
This essay reads the NBC drama The West Wing against the cultural anxieties and ambivalences about the contemporary presidency, arguing that the program presents a powerful and meaningful "presidentiality," a discursive construction of the presidency with ideological and rhetorical relevance. Specifically, The West Wing mimetically captures a view of the presidency, offering, in the process, a romantic vision of the institution that reflects the …
Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media - by Amal Al-Malki, David Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki & Kira Dreher
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media Amal Al-Malki, David Kaufer , Suguru Ishizaki & Kira Dreher Bloomsbury, Doha, Qatar, 2012, $44.95 (soft)pp. 466 Shawn J. Parry-Giles Shawn J. Parry-Giles 1University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 62, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages E1–E5, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460…
Lincoln Reminiscences and Nineteenth-Century Portraiture: The Private Virtues of Presidential Character
This essay examines reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln that were published in the aftermath of his death by those who had interacted with Lincoln personally. An understudied genre y Lincoln reminiscences offered judgments of Lincolns character through a portraiture style designed to make salient private as well as public dimensions of his character. We historicize the rhetoric of portraiture and trace the rise of reminiscence out of biography as a …
The “image bite,” political language, and the public/private divide: NBC News coverage of Hillary Clinton from scorned wife to Senate candidate
Voice-overs with muted images, often known as the “image bite,” have become an increasingly used but understudied format of political language by the television news media. Because the media can use images to fit many contexts and purposes of commentary, the media images are susceptible to continuous de-contextualization and re-contextualization. Drawing from theories of feminist critical discourse analysis and gender performance as well as schol…
Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President
Other| March 01 2015 Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Shawn J. Parry-Giles Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Rhetoric and Political Culture in the Department of Communication and Director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland in College Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David S. Kaufer David S. Kaufer Davi…
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…
This Is Who We Are!” National Identity Construction and the 2014 Fifa World Cup
Drawing on the literature on American nationalism and the social identity perspective, this study examines the effects of mediasport on nationalized attitudes, using both rhetorical and experimental approaches. First, a rhetorical analysis examined the nationalistic themes featured in the game promotional ad of the United States versus Ghana soccer match in World Cup 2014, linking these themes to the republicanism/liberalism paradox in American p…
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign memoirs: A study in contrasting identities
This essay examines the rhetorical identities of Hillary Clinton’s two political memoirs—Living History and Hard Choices. The first spanned her childhood through her years as first lady. The second recounted her tenure as secretary of state. Though both memoirs were written with a past orientation, they also sought to keep alive a future run for the presidency. Situating the two Clinton memoirs in the history of biography, we employ corpus rhetor…
The veeps audition—campaign 2020: Disciplining Kamala Harris
This essay spotlights some of the ways that the 2020 presidential campaign reified the sexism and racism baked into American politics. To demonstrate her suitability as Joe Biden’s running mate, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris had to downplay her skill as a prosecutor with political intellect and present herself more as a doting and submissive partner picked out of a group of women vying for Biden’s attention. Such expressions of loyalt…
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