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Title
Visual rhetorics of Communist Romania : life under the totalitarian gaze / Adriana Cordali.
ISBN
9783031188060 (electronic bk.)
3031188063 (electronic bk.)
9783031188053
3031188055
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 248 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-18806-0 doi
Call Number
HM500
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.230949809045
Summary
Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life under the Totalitarian Gaze offers personal accounts and theoretical insight into the Cold War era when little information about life beyond the Iron Curtain could transpire to the West. Adriana Cordali develops a unique visual rhetorical theory for analyzing communist totalitarian propaganda and the resistance to it, and reveals the deliberate, strategic in/visibilities the rhetoric of power engaged in. Building upon the local history, ideology, and politics of the regime imposed after WWII, she identifies propagandas rhetorical features, visual tropes, and symbols and examines striking photographs and print materials from Ceausescus regime (1966-1989) and the time of regime change (1989-1990), as well as an award-winning Romanian film that depicts womens life at the time. Converging visual rhetoric and culture with history and politics, Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania is a first book of this kind and will interest readers of rhetoric and communication, visual rhetoric, and political discourse in the region. Adriana Cordali is an independent scholar, professor, technical writer for federal agencies, and article editor for academic publishers. She has a Graduate Diploma in International Studies (Johns Hopkins University) and a PhD in Rhetoric (Illinois State University), served as Chair of the Romanian Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) (2016-17), has published works in visual rhetoric, cultural studies, and post/communism, and received the 2014 Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship in English from the Womens Caucus of the MLA.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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text file PDF
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 24, 2023).
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Print version: 9783031188053