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Peer reviewedTaylor, Bryan C. – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1993
Examines the ironic "problems" of the 1989 Hollywood film "Fat Man and Little Boy" (portraying the construction of the atomic bomb at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II) to demonstrate the ideological operations of nuclear texts, and the role of the nuclear weapons organization as a symbolic form in cultural…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Film Criticism, Films, Higher Education
Hubbard, Bryan K. – 1991
Given a choice of one argument, most Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) competitors would choose the nuclear war scenario, which attempts to capitalize on apocalyptism. A three-stage methodology can be applied to apocalyptic appeals. First is an application of the concept of universal audience, composed of all reasonable and competent…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Debate, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology)
