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Surveying the Field: Annotations of Further Readings

Barrios, Jose Luis. "Iconography Past and Present: Visual Constructions of Power in Post-PRI Mexico." Discourse 23.2 (Spring 2001) 26–43.: In this fascinating article, Barrios traces the role of visual rhetoric in the shift of political power in Post-PRI Mexico.
Barson, Michael & Steven Heller. Red Scared!: The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture. Chronicle Books: 2001.: This book investigates America’s obsession with the “Red Menace” as seen in movie posters, comic books, and images from political pamphlets, and national news magazines.
Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg. “Research as a Social Act.” The Clearing House 60 (1987): 303–06.: In this article, Bizzell and Herzberg suggest the function of research as a collaborative venture, as the participation in a larger community of inquiry.
Booth, Wayne, et al. The Craft of Research. 2^nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.: This helpful book guides the writer through the research project, from the planning to revising stages.
Crowley, Sharon and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd ed. New York: Longman, 2003.: A great text to consult if you want to learn more about how the principles of classical rhetoric remain relevant today.
Jacobs, Karrie & Steven Heller. Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan/Bush Era. Gibbs Smith: 1992.: This text collects powerful – and sometimes shocking – protest art, providing also an essay on the history of protest posters by Heller, an expert in the history and practice of graphic design.
Lindemann, Erika. “Prewriting Techniques” A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. 3^rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 105–25.: This helpful article offers insight into how writers can best use prewriting to generate ideas.
Maher, Bill. When You Ride ALONE You Ride with bin Laden. Beverly Hills: New Millenium Press, 2002.: In this amusing book, Maher reworks vintage propaganda posters to provide visual arguments to complement his discussions of various current political issues.
Mann, James & Howard Zinn. Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated. Edition Olms, 2004.: This book collects over 200 anti-war posters that range from comic, to provocative, to shocking.
Olsen, Lester C. “Portraits in Praise of a People: A Rhetorical Analysis of Norman Rockwell’s Icons in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms’ Campaign.” Quarterley Journal of Speech 69.1 (Feb. 1983) 15–24.: This article provides an interesting reading of how Rockwell designed these propaganda posters to appeal specifically to the political and religious ideology of his audience.
Paret, Peter, Lewis, Beth Irwin, and Paul Paret. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.: An impressive collection of twentieth-century posters from the Hoover Archives at Stanford University, from both American and international sources.
Propaganda Critic. http://www.propagandacritic.com/: This politically-charged Website is devoted to the identification and critique of modern propaganda.
Rowley, Alison. “Ready for Work and Defense: Visual Propaganda and Soviet Women’s Military Preparedness in the 1930s.” Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military Fall-Winter 2000: 3.: Rowley examines film, posters, and even postage stamps in this interesting analysis of Soviet propaganda from the early 20^th century.
Shaw, Tony “Martyrs, Miracles, and Martians: Religion and Cold War Cinematic Propaganda in the 1950s” Journal of Cold War Studies 4.2 (Spring 2002) 3–22.: In this article, Shaw looks at how the rhetoric of religion was utilized in propaganda films generated during the Cold War.
Weitz, Margaret Collins “Art in the Service of Propaganda: The Poster War in France during World War II.” Religion & the Arts. 4.1 (March 2000) 43-75.: Weitz investigates the proliferation of anti-Semitic stereotypes in French propaganda posters during World War II.
Wright, Micah. “You Back the Attack! We’ll Bomb Who We Want! Seven Stories Press, 2003.: This volume collects some of the most powerful of Micah Wright’s re-mixed propaganda poster from his Website.