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power beyond words: An examination of the rhetoric of cartoon art about Ronald Reagan

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Date Issued:
1996
Summary:
This thesis examines the rhetorical effects created by political cartoonists through their depictions of Ronald Reagan. A representative sampling of these cartoons demonstrates that the pictorial and symbolic language in their visual dialogue was extrapolated from the heroic, mythic character types Reagan portrayed during his film career and with which he sought to be identified. This thesis argues that because cartoons depicted and caricaturized Reagan as an archetypal hero, they touched a responsive chord in the electorate and persuaded them to regard Reagan favorably.
Title: A power beyond words: An examination of the rhetoric of cartoon art about Ronald Reagan.
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Name(s): Attisani, Della J.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 182 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis examines the rhetorical effects created by political cartoonists through their depictions of Ronald Reagan. A representative sampling of these cartoons demonstrates that the pictorial and symbolic language in their visual dialogue was extrapolated from the heroic, mythic character types Reagan portrayed during his film career and with which he sought to be identified. This thesis argues that because cartoons depicted and caricaturized Reagan as an archetypal hero, they touched a responsive chord in the electorate and persuaded them to regard Reagan favorably.
Identifier: 15279 (digitool), FADT15279 (IID), fau:12050 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Adviser: Dorothy Guinn.
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.
Subject(s): Psychology, Social
Political Science, General
Mass Communications
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