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  • Uncovering Women's Magazines: Editors' Perspectives on the Relationship between Editorial and Advertising Content in Women's Fashion/Beauty Magazines

    Creator:
    Felesky, C. Leigh
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    This research examines women's magazine editors' perspectives of the relationship between editorial and advertising content in women's magazines. It specifically investigates how this relationship affects both general editorial content and more specifically, social topic stories. Mainstream women's beauty/fashion magazine editors—including editors-in-chief—were queried as to the nature of these relationships. Interviews...
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    Masters Thesis
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    through a political economy approach is recommended. ©Copyright by C. Leigh Felesky June 6, 2000 All

  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
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    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
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    by crushing men between her thighs in Goldeneye. Sidney (Neve Campbell) shoots one set of serial

  • Pushing for natural childbirth : a rhetorical analysis of the alternative birth movement

    Creator:
    Coffey, Kimberly Ann
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    The purpose of this study is to examine how rhetoric functions in the Alternative Birth Movement (ABM). In particular, communication published by movement leaders will be examined to discover how rhetoric propels the movement from one stage to the next as well as how rhetoric facilitates the goals of the...
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    offering a critique of Michael C. McGee’s essay, “In Search of ‘The People’: A Rhetorical Alternative

  • Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

    Creator:
    Christian, Mary Ann
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    The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...
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    .................................................................. 78 Appendix B Supreme Court Opinion Reno v. ACLU ................................... 81 Appendix C

  • Multiethnic women's identity and perceptions of competent communication

    Creator:
    Hilliard, Cynthea R.
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    This study identified some of the ways that multiethnic women describe their ethnic identities, how they perceive ethnic-specific gender identities and what they think are appropriate norms for, and effective outcomes of, communicative behavior. Twelve multiethnic women described their ethnic identity names or labels, and ethnic-specific gender identities; they also...
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    Title Page Number T1.a Respondent #1 29 T1.b Respondent #2 30 T1.c Respondent #3 30 T1.d Respondent #4