Bernard M Timberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 6551232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard M Timberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard M |
| FAMILY NAME | Timberg |
| SIGNATURE | TIMBERG B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A festivus for the restivus
Drawing on scholars who have discussed humor's capacity to simultaneously unite and divide (Appel 1996; Mintz 1999; Meyer 2000) and on Kenneth Burke's (1969b) rhetoric of identification and division, this paper describes the rhetorical strategies Jewish-American humorists have used to respond to Christmas as a national American holiday. An examination of Jewish humor about Christmas contributes to the growing literature describing how Jewish humo…
Encounters with the Television Image
This chapter surveys 30 years of research on the audiovisual codes of television. This research centers on close readings of encoded texts and the processes and practices of television encoding. The chapter discusses the humanist precursors of encoding research (McLuhan, Ong, Carpenter); the first phase of educational research on individual production variables; the next phase, in which scholars of literary texts applied their methodologies to te…
The Rhetoric of the Camera in Television Soap Opera
Patty Hearst and Mercy Short
News and Mythic Selectivity
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News and Mythic Selectivity
The Rhetoric of the Camera in Television Soap Opera
Patty Hearst and Mercy Short
Encounters with the Television Image
This chapter surveys 30 years of research on the audiovisual codes of television. This research centers on close readings of encoded texts and the processes and practices of television encoding. The chapter discusses the humanist precursors of encoding research (McLuhan, Ong, Carpenter); the first phase of educational research on individual production variables; the next phase, in which scholars of literary texts applied their methodologies to te…
A festivus for the restivus
Drawing on scholars who have discussed humor's capacity to simultaneously unite and divide (Appel 1996; Mintz 1999; Meyer 2000) and on Kenneth Burke's (1969b) rhetoric of identification and division, this paper describes the rhetorical strategies Jewish-American humorists have used to respond to Christmas as a national American holiday. An examination of Jewish humor about Christmas contributes to the growing literature describing how Jewish humo…
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