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Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies
Volume 3(4), 2006

 
CONTENTS
 
Grey, Stephanie Houston Ally McBeal as allegory: Setting the eating-disordered subject in opposition to feminism. 288-306
 
  This essay examines the use of moral allegories to represent eating-disordered individuals in the popular television program Ally McBeal and the subsequent controversy surrounding its star, Calista Flockhart 
 
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health
television
gender
 
 
Cesaratto, Todd The Good Will Hunting Technique. 307-328
 
  "The Good Will Hunting Technique" analyzes and enacts rhetorical paradigms present in popular culture 
 
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popular culture
film
visualization
rhetoric
Europe
critical theory
 
 
Cloud, Dana L. The Matrix and critical theory's desertion of the real. 329-354
 
  This article uses the narratives of the popular films The Matrix, Matrix: Reloaded, and Matrix: Revolutions as a lens through which to discuss the problems of the real and human agency in contemporary critical theory 
 
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critical theory
cultural studies
narrative
theory
text and writing
film
 
 
Hartnett, Stephen John, and Larson, Daniel Mark "Tonight another man will die": Crime, violence, and the master tropes of contemporary arguments about the death penalty. 263-287
 
  Merging our work as grassroots activists and scholars, we map the master tropes of contemporary arguments both for and against the death penalty 
 
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contemporary issues
death
law
metaphor
debate
rhetoric