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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Oprah Winfrey"”.
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Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America
… queen Susan Powter, and talk show host Oprah Winfrey. I point to the troubling effects of the articulations between feminism and fitness and examine the contemporary American therapeutic cultures of recovery and renewal and what has come to constitute empowerment in the American …
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THE IMPORTANCE OF CELEBRITIES IN POLITICAL DECISION MAKING: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
… this thesis explores the rhetorical aspects of Oprah Winfrey and Will.i.am’s endorsements and their efforts to impact the audience’s reception toward Obama’s politics. I conclude that the celebrities not only made the public more receptive to Obama’s campaign, but also more willing to embrace …
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The Bridges of Madison County and Iowa: Production, Reception, and Place
… Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and on the Oprah Winfrey Show. It sold over ten million copies and became the fastest-selling hardcover novel of its era. Bridges' pretension to literariness touched a nerve with New York cultural gatekeeping literary reviewers, who conflated its perceived …
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The "Oprah Effect": A Content Analysis of Media Coverage of Toni Morrison and How the Coverage Changed Post-Oprah.
… year before and year following her selection for Opraha's Book Club. The content analysis method was used in the research, and the results were used to test 6 hypotheses and 6 research questions.</p><p>The results indicated that there was a significant increase in the total number of mentions of …