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Peer reviewedRushing, Janice Hocker – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 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…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Ethnography, Film Industry
