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Chesebro, James W. – Communication Quarterly, 1991
Employs a dramatistic system based on the critical frameworks of Kenneth Burke and Northrop Frye to analyze 903 prime-time network television series. Classifies series as ironic, mimetic, leader-centered, romantic, or mythical. Concludes that over the period from 1974-91, series went from individualism, to idealism and authority, to authority…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Individualism, Irony, Leadership