Political Communication, Volume 24, Issue 4 (2007)

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Editorials

Editorial
Editor's Farewell
David L. Paletz
Pages: 357-358
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Representation and the Politics of Play: Stephen Colbert's Better Know a District
Geoffrey Baym
Pages: 359-376
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Winning Coverage in the U.S. Senate
Patrick J. Sellers & Brian F. Schaffner
Pages: 377-391
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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The Campaign Disconnect: Media Coverage of the 2000 South Carolina Presidential Primary
C. Danielle Vinson & William V. Moore
Pages: 393-413
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Media Effects, Selective Exposure, and Fahrenheit 9/11
Natalie Jomini Stroud
Pages: 415-432
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review

Book Review
The President's Speeches: Beyond “Going Public,” by Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha
Addressing the State of the Union: The Evolution and Impact of the President's Big Speech, by Donna R. Hoffman and Alison D. Howard
Presidents in Culture: The Meaning of Presidential Communication, by David Michael Ryfe
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2006. 221 pp. $49.95 hardcover Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2006. 213 pp. $49.95 hardcover New York: Peter Lang, 2005. 249 pp. $29.95 paper
Robert Eisinger
Pages: 433-436
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Addressing the State of the Union: The Evolution and Impact of the President's Big Speech, by Donna R. Hoffman and Alison D. Howard
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On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit, by George C. Edwards III
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. 320 pp. $20.00 cloth
Shanto Iyengar
Pages: 436-440
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People, by Scott L. Althaus
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 384 pp. $75.00 hardcover, $27.99 paper
Jennifer Jerit
Pages: 440-442
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Film in the United States, by Daniel P. Franklin
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 223 pp. $77.00 cloth; $28.95 paper
Regina G. Lawrence
Pages: 442-444
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Media and the Restyling of Politics, edited by John Corner and Dick Pels
Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge, by Liesbet van Zoonen
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003. 210 pp. $110.00 cloth; $45.95 paper Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 181 pp. $76.00 cloth; $27.95 paper
Jeffrey P. Jones
Pages: 444-446
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture, by Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard
Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2007. 274 pp. $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper
Aaron Belkin
Pages: 446-448
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen, by Phillip N. Howard
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 264 pp. $65 hardcover; $23.99 paper
David Tewksbury
Pages: 448-449
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns, by John G. Geer
Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work, by Ted Brader
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 201 pp. $47.50 cloth; $19.00 paper Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 280 pp. $60.00 cloth; $24.00 paper
Lynn Vavreck
Pages: 450-452
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political Development, by Marco Calavita
Albany, State University of New York Press, 2005. 285 pp. $81.50 cloth; $27.95 paper
Suzanne Soule
Pages: 452-453
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Notorious H.I.V.: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams, by Thomas Shevory
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 214 pp. $18.95 paper
Stephen M. Valocchi
Pages: 453-455
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters, by C. Edwin Baker
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media, by Eric Klinenberg
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 272 pp. $65.00 cloth; $22.99 paper New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007. 352 pp. $26.00 cloth; $16.00 paper
James T. Hamilton
Pages: 455-457
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force, by James Boyd White
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 256 pp. $29.95 cloth
Roderick P. Hart
Pages: 457-459
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
The American Journalist in the 21st Century: U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium, by David H. Weaver, Randal A. Beam, Bonnie J. Brownlee, Paul S. Voakes, and G. Cleveland Wilhoit
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2007. 291 pp. $79.95 hardcover; $32.50 paper
Stephen D. Reese
Pages: 459-461
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper, by Laurel Leff
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 442 pp. $29 hardcover; $19.99 paper
Susan E. Tifft
Pages: 461-462
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, by Larry Gross
Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media, by Edward Alwood
All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, by Suzanna Danuta Walters
New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 295 pp. $77.50 cloth; $23.50 paper New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 368 pp. $77.50 cloth; $26.00 paper Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 356 pp. $30.00 cloth; $19.00 paper
Paul R. Brewer
Pages: 462-464
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media, by Edward Alwood
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Book Review
Media & Minorities: The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment, by Stephanie Greco Larson
Lanhams MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 384 pp. $80 cloth; $35 paper
Oscar H. Gandy Jr.
Pages: 465-466
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, by Maria Elena Buszek
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 464 pp. $24.95 paper
Alanna Thain
Pages: 466-467
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Fueling Our Fears: Stereotyping, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion of Muslim Americans, by Brigitte L. Nacos and Oscar Torres-Reyna
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. 160 pp. $23.95 paper
Abdullah Al-Arian
Pages: 468-469
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Terrorism, Media, and Public Policy: The Oklahoma City Bombing, by James David Ballard
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005. 148 pp. $37.50 cloth; $18.95 paper
Sean Aday
Pages: 469-471
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City, by Steve Macek
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 360 pp. $22.95 paper
Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach
Pages: 471-472
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest, by Jill A. Edy
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. 240 pp. $71.50 cloth; $23.95 paper
James N. Druckman
Pages: 472-474
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Movies on Trial: The Legal System on the Silver Screen, by Anthony Chase
New York: New Press, 2002. 216 pp. $25.95 hardcover
William Haltom
Pages: 474-475
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film, by Cynthia A. B. Lucia
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 269pp. $55.00 hard cover
Lisa M. Cuklanz
Pages: 475-476
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt
On Truth, by Harry G. Frankfurt
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 67 pp. $9.95 hardcover Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 101 pp. $12.50 hardcover
Steven Livingston
Pages: 476-481
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Book Review
Handbook of Political Communication Research, edited by Lynda Lee Kaid
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004. 541 pp. $149.95 cloth; $69.95 paper
Steven Livingston
Pages: 481-484
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Film Review

Horns and Halos, produced and directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky
2002. Running time: 90 minutes. RumuR Incorporated
David Domke
Pages: 485-486
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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After Innocence, directed, written, and produced by Jessica Sanders
2005. Running time: 95 minutes. Showtime/New Yorker Films
Michael A. Krasner
Pages: 486-487
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Workingman's Death, directed by Michael Glawogger
2005. 122 minutes. Distributed by Seventh Art Releasing. Contact: or
Clay Steinman
Pages: 487-489
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey, produced by William Greaves
Citizen King, produced by Orlando Bagwell and W. Noland Walker
2001. Running time: 120 minutes. Available from William Greaves Productions, Inc., 230 West 55 Street, New York, NY 10019-6150 2004. Running time: 120 minutes. Available from PBS Video
Paula D. McClain
Pages: 489-491
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Miscellany

Manuscript Reviewers, 2006–2007
Pages: 493-495
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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Free Access
Index to Volume 24, 2007
Pages: 496-499
Published online: 06 Dec 2007
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