LibGuides: COM 408: Rhetorical Criticism (Bloomfield): Library Guides

Finding Artifacts

American President: Presidential Speech Archive
American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank
Movie speeches, sermons, interview, top 100 speeches and rhetorical figures in sound. Scroll down to view all.
Blackpast.org--Speeches
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Selected materials from historic U.S. newspapers from 1836-1922.
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
Great Speeches Collection: The History Place
History Matters: Making Sense of Evidence
"This section helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. “Making Sense of Documents” provides strategies for analyzing online primary materials..." (From website.)
Rhetoric of 9-11 (AmericanRhetoric.com)
Say it Plain Say It Loud
From American Radio Works, this site features a century of great African American speeches.
SoJust: Speeches on Social Justice
Presidential Inauguration Resources
From Washington-to-Trump

Finding Visual Artifacts

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Art digital images and related data.
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content user.

CineFiles
CineFiles is a gateway to digitized film-related documents and ephemera that have been collected by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive since the 1970s.
Google Cultural Institute
Exhibits and collections from a range of museum collections and cultural institutions.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Access the various image collections from the Library of Congress.
The Living Room Candidate
Archive of presidential campaign commercials from 1952 - 2008 provided by the Museum of the Moving Image.
NYPL Digital Collections
Posters, maps, photographs, book illustrations, etc.
Shorpy.com
Vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s
viz
Visual Rhetoric, Visual Culture, Pedagogy. The award-winning digital publication viz. is committed to the intersections of Rhetoric and visual culture. In keeping with its mission to promote visual literacy, the viz. blog presents a daily community forum for discussing images in the digital age. The website attracts a steady, significant following with an international audience made up of users from 144 countries and territories.
Vintage Ad Browser
Over 100,000 vintage ads categorized by subject and browsable by decade
World Images
Includes all areas of visual imagery

Film, TV, and Music

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.
Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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1900-
Journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies .
Update frequency: weekly
Communication & Mass Media Complete contains journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies. It merges CommSearch (formerly produced by the NCA, National Communication Association) and the Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides current issues and backfiles of in the fields of communication and mass media.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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1880-2015
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.
Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
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Journal and magazine articles about film and television.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Media History Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Film industry and fan publications, 1903-1995.
Movie Review Query Engine This link opens in a new window
Free online index of movie reviews from both offline and online sources.
Search by movie title, recent releases, lists of festivals and selections of the American Film Institute.
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) This link opens in a new window
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1802-1995
Journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published between 1802-1995
Update frequency: quarterly
Search international scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995. PAO includes pre-1995 issues of over 400 journals, including many journals published in languages other than English.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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1995-
Scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Update frequency: monthly
Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new window
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1950-1975
Primary sources documenting music and popular culture in the US and Britain, 1950-1975, including manuscripts, video, photos, underground magazines and more.

African American Music Reference This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of Black American musical expression.
Bloomsbury Music and Sound This link opens in a new window
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Scholarship about rock and roll and other popular music around the world, plus interdisciplinary studies of the theory, methodology, and practice of sound.
Includes the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, ebooks analyzing significant popular albums in the 33 1/3 series, and books about sound from disciplines like art, aesthetics, architecture, contemporary music, history, philosophy, technology, and cultural studies.

Billboard Magazine, 1920-2016

BBC Archive
Offers themed collections (art, literature, performing arts, and more) of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs from as far back as the 1930s.
TV Series 'Bibles': Series bibles "come under various guises and can be used as a pitch document, a guide for directors, or additional info to be submitted along with a pilot episode." This site links to the texts of more than 40, including Battlestar Galactica, Breaking Bad, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, and more.

YouTube: Though its original intent was to "allow billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos," YouTube has become a de facto repository for clips and full-length films of all kinds, including commercial releases. Some material has not been been posted legally, so content can disappear.

65 TV Pilot Scripts That Screenwriters Should Study
Contains pdfs of pilot episodes of 65 different series, including Mad Men, Black-ish, The Sopranos, Killing Eve, The Office, Game of Thrones and many others.

Finding Rhetorical Criticism on UNLV Library Databases

UNLV Libraries Quick Search
What is Quick Search?
Quick Search searches for books and e-books, journal articles, videos, newspaper articles and more in UNLV's databases and collections.

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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1900-
Journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies .
Update frequency: weekly
Communication & Mass Media Complete contains journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies. It merges CommSearch (formerly produced by the NCA, National Communication Association) and the Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides current issues and backfiles of in the fields of communication and mass media.
ComAbstracts This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field.
The ComAbstracts database index contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field. Produced by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship. Use the link labeled "Check your library for full text access" to retrieve complete articles when available online.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles and books about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
Scope: U.S. and Canada only
Languages: Abstracts of articles in 40 different languages
This index includes almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Books, media reviews, and dissertations are also covered, and approximately 16,000 entries are added each year. The Get Text button links to online full text when available and offers access to UNLV print collections and document delivery options for books and articles not available online.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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1995-
Scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Update frequency: monthly
Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
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Journal and magazine articles about film and television.

CQ Magazine This link opens in a new window
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1983-
Comprehensive roundup of virtually all Capitol Hill activity from the previous week.
Excellent source of current information on hot legislative topics in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
CQ Press Library This link opens in a new window
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Resources on public policy and American government, including deep dives into hot topics for policymakers in CQ Researcher Plus Archive and brief legislative analysis in the CQ Magazine (formerly CQ Weekly).
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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1954-
Journal articles and books about world history from 1450 forward (Does not include the United States and Canada). Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Historical Abstracts identifies journal articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada (See: America: History and Life). Articles from over 2,000 journals are indexed and annotated, and the database includes over half a million entries in all. A select 3,000 books are also listed.
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America This link opens in a new window
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1400-1950s
Primary sources for American Indian history in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books from pre-contact through the mid-20th century.

Rhetoric Criticism Resources

Silva Rhetoricæ
Maintained by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, this site concentrates on the terms of classical renaissance rhetoric.
ASHR (American Society for the History of Rhetoric)
"Resources" section of website offers links to a rhetoric-related organizations as well as primary sources, online resource pages in rhetorical studies and discussion groups.

Specific Journals Focusing on Rhetoric

Below are some examples of specific scholarly journals focusing on rhetoric.

Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Description provided by EBSCO: Covers the history, theory, and criticism of public discourse.
Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric
Description provided by EBSCO: Publishes theoretically based analyses that explore the rhetorical workings of current affairs.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
From Taylor & Francis: Rhetoric Society Quarterly , the official journal of the Rhetoric Society of America, features original articles on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy.
Rhetoric Review
From Taylor & Francis: A scholarly interdisciplinary journal of rhetoric that publishes in all areas of rhetoric and writing and provides a professional forum for its readers to consider and discuss current topics and issues.

Examples of E-Books (Access with ACE Account)

Below are a few examples of e-books available through UNLV Libraries. To find others, try a keyword search about your topic and be sure to limit it to Books and Full-Text on Quick Search. If you don't limit it to Full-Text, you will also see what's available in the Libraries print collection on third, fourth and fifth floors of Lied Library.

Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary by Thomas W. Benson (Editor
ISBN: 9780809334070
Publication Date: 2015-04-27
Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian.
Disability Rhetoric by Jay Timothy Dolmage
ISBN: 9780815633242
Publication Date: 2014-01-22
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.
Words Like Daggers by Kirilka Stavreva
ISBN: 9780803286597
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Dramatic and documentary narratives about aggressive and garrulous women often cast such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority. Contending narratives, however, sometimes within the same texts, point to the effective subversion and undoing of the normative restrictions of social and gender hierarchies.
The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations by Justin S. Vaughn; Jennifer R. Mercieca
ISBN: 9781623491215
Publication Date: 2014-03-01
Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack ObamaOCOs 2008 campaign.
In the Name of Terrorism by Carol K. Winkler
ISBN: 0791466175
Publication Date: 2005-10-27
Traces the shifts in presidential discourse on terrorism since World War II.
The Reinvention of Populist Rhetoric in the Digital Age by Mark Rolfe
ISBN: 9789811021602
Publication Date: 2016-12-05
This highly original work considers the rhetoric of political actors and commentators who identify digital media as the means to a new era of politics and democracy.
The Pop Festival by George McKay
ISBN: 9781623568207
Publication Date: 2015-05-21
Woodstock is only the tip of the iceberg. Popular music festivals are one of the strikingly successful and enduring features of seasonal popular cultural consumption for young people and older generations of enthusiasts.
Countercultures and Popular Music by Sheila Whiteley; Jedediah Sklower
ISBN: 1317158911
Publication Date: 2016-05-13
'Counterculture' emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of 'counterculture' and a critical examination of the period and its heritage.
Extreme Cinema by Mattias Frey
ISBN: 9780813576527
Publication Date: 2016-03-15
Received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Best Monograph Award From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their shockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence.
On Becoming Neighbors by Alexandra Klaren
ISBN: 9780822945901
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
Fred Rogers is an American cultural and media icon, whose children's television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, ran for more than thirty years (1967-2001) on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). In this highly original book, Alexandra C. Klarén shows how Rogers captured the moral, social, and emotional imaginations of multiple generations of Americans. She explores the nuanced complexity of the thought behind the man and the program, the dialogical integration of his various influences, and the intentional ethic of care behind the creation of a program that spoke to the affective, socio-cultural, and educational needs of children (and adults) during a period of cultural upheaval. Richly informed by newly available archival materials, On Becoming Neighbors chronicles the evolution of Rogers' thought on television, children, pedagogy, and the family through a rhetorical, cultural, and ethical lens. Klarén probes how Rogers creates the conditions for dialogue in which participants explore possibilities and questions relating to the social and material world.
The Daily Show and Rhetoric by Trischa Goodnow Knapp
ISBN: 0739150049
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies examines the popular Comedy Central program from a rhetorical perspective to uncover the ways in which Jon Stewart, the cast, and writers critique mainstream media and politicians. This volume analyzes the nature of The Daily Show, the arguments the program makes about the media and politics, the strategies that are used, and some of the particular issues about which the program makes arguments. Overall, the contributors skillfully demonstrate that The Daily Show is more than just a show designed to make the audience laugh. Rather, the show provides useful information and arguments so that the audience can make informed decisions about the world around them.

Rhetoric-Related Journals

Present Tense : A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
Relevant Rhetoric: A New Journal of Rhetorical Studies
Philosophy and Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Public Affairs
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Rhetoric Review, A Journal of Rhetoric and Composition
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Rhetorica
American Rhetoric - Rhetoric & Communication Journals

A list of journals with links to their web sites.

Rhetoric-Related Organizations

American Society for the History of Rhetoric

Part of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, and publisher of Advances in the History of Rhetoric.
Gorgias Society

For students of rhetoric and composition theory.
International Society for the History of Rhetoric

Promotes the study of the theory of rhetoric and its relationships to other disciplines.
Rhetorical Society of America

Interdisciplinary scholarly organization. Site includes information on rhetoric conferences, journals, awards, news, and resource links.

Online Movies & Streaming Video Available via UNLV Libraries

Online Movies & Streaming Video
Guide to the Libraries' licensed collections of streaming video and other sources. The collections provide access to thousands of educational videos, documentaries and feature films on a variety of subjects.

Here are some examples of the videos available. You can access these and all films using your ACE Account:

Citation Style Resources

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