Heroes in a global world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cresskill, N.J. :
Hampton Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Hampton Press communication series. Mass communications and journalism.
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Table of Contents:
- The global communication environment of heroes / Susan Drucker & Gary Gumpert
- Heroes and/as communication / Lance Strate
- Global identification with celebrity heroes / William J. Brown & Benson P. Fraser
- U.S. and European heroism compared / John Dean
- From distant heroes to intimate friends : media and the metamorphosis of affection for public figures / Joshua Meyrowitz
- The wrinkle theory : the deconsecration of the hero / Gary Gumpert
- The two faces of Osama bin Laden : mass media representations as a force for evil and Arabic hero / Mahmoud Eid
- Female "heroe" at Ground Zero : verbal and visual accounts reconceptualize the "heroic" / Valerie Smith
- Heroes in a global world : an examination of traditional folkloric and mythic formulae for heroes and contemporary iterations / Susan Duffy
- A return of the "real?" discussions with children ages 5 to 13 about the contemporary hero / Cheryl Harris & Alison Alexander
- Defining the heroic in a context of Arab-Islamic values : a case study of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan of the UAE / Susan Swan & Timothy Walters
- Orality versus monotheism or media versus narratives : biblical heroes and the media environment of the spoken word / Eva Berger
- Menachem Begin : a hero's guiding vision / Sondra M. Rubenstein & Adam Ehrlich
- Hero or villain, but always a celebrity : John Paul II / Maria Way
- Gods in all things : media, culture, and cycles of heroic construction in Japan / Todd Holden
- Shrek as a test of the universality of the hero's quest / Steven C. Combs
- The mediated sports hero / Susan J. Drucker
- From hero to celebrity : the political economy of stardom / Philip Drake
- Celebrity law / Susan Drucker.