Visualizing “the people”: Individualism vs. Collectivism in let us now praise famous men

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-288

  Lucaites, John Louis ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liberal democracy; Photojournalism; Public; the people; visual rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011128718     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335639709384186     Document Type: Article

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