Kristen Hoerl is an Assistant Professor at the College of Communication at Butler
University. 

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Depoliticizing Pregnancy and the Post-Nuclear Family in Juno, Knocked Up, and Waitress (with Casey R. Kelly), Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2010)

This essay explores three films from 2007, Knocked Up, Juno, and Waitress, which foreground young...

 

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The Post-Nuclear Family and the Depoliticization of Unplanned Pregnancy in Juno, Knocked Up, and Waitress (with Casey R. Kelly), Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2010)

This essay explores three films from 2007, Knocked Up, Juno, and Waitress, which foreground young...

 

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Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights, Critical Studies in Media Communication (2009)

The 1988 film Mississippi Burning drew extensive criticism for its misleading portrayal of the FBI’s...

 

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Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims’ Trauma in Television News Coverage, 1990 - 2000., The Communication Review (2009)

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd at Kent State...

 

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Deranged Loners and Demented Outsiders? Therapeutic News Frames of Presidential Assassination Attempts, 1973-2001 (with D. L. Cloud and S. E. Jarvis), Communication Culture & Critique (2009)

There were 7 assassination attempts on U.S. presidents between 1973 and 2001. In this article,...

 

Contributions to Books

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Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise (2008)
 

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Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers, Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual (Selected papers from the 2004 Rhetoric Society of America Conference (2004)

On June 12 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was shot to death in front...

 

Presentations

Analyzing the Visual and Discursive Rhetoric of the Creation Museum, Spotlight panel of the Central States Communication Association annual meeting (2010)
 
Burning Mississippi into Memory: Parker’s Mississippi Burning and the Struggle for Hegemony in Popular Culture, Competitive paper presented to the National Communication Association annual convention, Critical and Cultural Studies Division. (2006)
 
The rhetoric of objectivity in the documentaries Berkeley in the Sixties and The Weather Underground, Competitive paper presented to the National Communication Association annual convention, Mass Communication Division (2006)