Political candidates' convention films: Finding the perfect image-an overview of political image making

Defining Visual Rhetorics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 135-154

  Strachan, J Cherie ^a   Kendall, Kathleen E ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410609977     Document Type: Chapter

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