A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Election
Dianne Bystrom
Tuesday, 03 Feb 1998 at 12:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Dianne Bystrom will illustrate the use of humor in political campaigns with television ads from the Political Commercial Archive at the University of Oklahoma. She is director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University and is coeditor and contributing author to The Lynching of Language: Gender Politics, and Power in the Hill Thomas Hearings and the soon-to-be-published The Electronic Election: Perspectives on the 1996 Campaign Communication.Part of the National Affairs Series.
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