“The man for his time” The big lebowski as carnivalesque social critique

Communication Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 299-313

  Martin, Paul Pablo ^a   Renegar, Valerie R ^b  

^a MiraCosta College   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bakhtin; Carnival; Grotesque Realism; Rhetorical Analysis; Rhetorical Inversion; Social Critique

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749105523     PISSN: 10510974     EISSN: 17451035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10510970701518397     Document Type: Article

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