Articles

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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,...

 

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Cinematic Jujitsu: Resisting White Hegemony through the American Dream in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, Communication Studies (2008)

Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X (1992) presented Malcolm X’s life story using the narrative framework...

 

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Mississippi’s Social Transformation in Public Memories of the Trial Against Byron de la Beckwith for the Murder of Medgar Evers, Western Journal of Communication (2008)

In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted for the 1963 murder of civil rights...

 

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Mario Van Peebles’s Panther and Popular Memories of the Black Panther Party, Critical Studies in Media Communication (2007)

The 1995 movie Panther depicted the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as a vibrant but...

 

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Public Argument as Self-Preservation: A Critique of Argumentation Theory as a Democratic Practice, National Communication Association/American Forensic Association (Alta Conference on Argumentation) (2003)

The article presents a critical analysis on the argumentation theory of self-preservation as a democratic...

 

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Pain and Public Deliberation: Citizens, Victims, Advocates, Activists., National Communication Association/American Forensic Association (Alta Conference on Argumentation) (2001)

This paper revisits the limits and possibilities for the ideals of participatory democracy in the...

 

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)