Mythic Evolution of "The New Frontier" in Mass Mediated Rhetoric.

Rushing, Janice Hocker

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Publication Date: 1986

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Mythic Evolution of "The New Frontier" in Mass Mediated Rhetoric.

Rushing, Janice Hocker

Critical Studies in Mass Communication, v3 n3 p265-96 Sep 1986

Combines "rhetorical narration" with K. Burke's dramatistic pentad to argue that definitional cultural myths are rhetorically meaningful in relation to social consciousness if both evolved teleologically. Delineates two phases in America's frontier myth associated with recent space fiction films' representation of a pentadic term's transformation from land to space. (JD)

Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Ethnography, Film Industry, Folk Culture, Legends, Mass Media, Mass Media Effects, Mythology, North American History, Sociocultural Patterns, Theories

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Language: English

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