| Description |
vi, 257 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in rhetoric and communication |
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Studies in rhetoric and communication.
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| Contents |
Performing the laws: popular trials and social knowledge / Robert Hariman -- Constitutional argument in a national theater: the impeachment trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell / John Lucaites -- Two stories of the Scopes Trial: legal and journalistic articulations of the legitimacy of science and religion / Lawrance M. Bernabo and Celeste Michelle Condit -- Constraints on persuasion in the Chicago Seven Trial / Juliet Dee -- Power, knowledge, and insanity: the trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. / William F. Lewis -- The Claus von Bulow retrial: lights, camera, genre? / Susan J. Drucker and Janice Platt Hunold -- The saga of Roger Hedgecock: a case study in trial by local media / Larry A. Williamson -- Crime as rhetoric: the trial of the Catonsville Nine / J. Justin Gustains -- Mediating the laws: popular trial and the mass media / Barry Brummett. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages238-250. |
| Subject |
Trials -- United States.
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Mass media -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Persuasion (Psychology)
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| Added Author |
Hariman, Robert.
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| ISBN |
0817304746 alkaline paper |
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