Linda K. Fuller

A de facto American national holiday and phenomenon, the Super Bowl claims a spot as one of the most significant sporting events in the world and the most widely celebrated, feasted and feasting event of the year- with $14+ billion at stake, commercials costing $7 million for a 30-second spot, record-setting broadcast ratings, and 113+ million viewers. More avocados (105 million pounds) are consumed, and more beer is drunk (325 million gallons) on the single day of Superbowl Sunday. But there is much more at play than partying at our annual sports extravaganza, as this scholarly researched yet readable volume demonstrates: Here you will read a historical perspective that includes discussions of the meta-event's economics (stakeholders, host cities, advertising, gambling, and media), fandom, ratings, halftime entertainment, the roles of mythic spectacle and religion, football's sexist, militaristic language, gender issues like cheerleaders and sex trafficking, the Puppy Bowl, medical concerns like concussions and violence, tailgating and foodie ideas-all along with tidbits about your favorite team(s) and player(s). Touchdown

Athlete activism by female Olympians and Paralympians is wide-ranging, with a colorful, sometimes contentious history blending sport and society. Emphasizing the rhetoric of women from around the world in multiple disciplines, Female Olympian and Paralympian Athlete Activists highlights 800+ women from 90 countries (including the Refugee Olympic Team). The book is underscored by author Linda K. Fuller’s developing theory of Gendered Critical Discourse Analysis (GCDA).

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women’s sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed. The book begins with a brief background on women’s participation in the Olympic Games and their role relative to the International Olympic Committee, then introduces the underlying Gendered Critical Discourse Analysis theory used throughout the book’s analysis before delving into a literature review of female Olympians and Paralympians’ events. It includes a listing of noteworthy “firsts” in the field, followed by individual discussions of twenty-eight Summer and seven Winter events, analyzed according to their historical, rhetorical, and popular cultural representations. Women’s unique role(s) in the various events are discussed, particular athletes and Paralympic events are highlighted, and original tables are also included. At the end of each section, affiliated organizations and resources are included in this invaluable referential volume.

This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women’s bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians’ successes.

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women’s sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed. The book begins with a brief background on women’s participation in the Olympic Games and their role relative to the International Olympic Committee, then introduces the underlying Gendered Critical Discourse Analysis theory used throughout the book’s analysis before delving into a literature review of female Olympians and Paralympians’ events. It includes a listing of noteworthy “firsts” in the field, followed by individual discussions of twenty-eight Summer and seven Winter events, analyzed according to their historical, rhetorical, and popular cultural representations. Women’s unique role(s) in the various events are discussed, particular athletes and Paralympic events are highlighted, and original tables are also included. At the end of each section, affiliated organizations and resources are included in this invaluable referential volume.

This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women’s bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians’ successes.

This text provides a unique examination of The Christian Science Monitor, a highly respected, venerable news publication that has survived over a century of changes and challenges. The Christian Science Monitor is one of the world's leading journalistic publications, having won multiple Pulitzer prizes for its reporting. CSM is innovative and forward-thinking as well—it was one of the first newspapers to provide an online copy of its daily reporting in 1996, well before the popularization of the Internet. But just like other publications, The Christian Science Monitor will need to continue to reinvent itself in order to stay relevant and solvent in the face of plummeting readership numbers, corporate takeovers, and a widespread assumption that all of today's news sources are biased and inaccurate. This book provides a thorough discussion of CSM's treatment of sensitive topics like terrorism, international crises, gender issues, and sexual orientation. The paper's attitudes toward ethnicity, ethics, economics, philosophy, and racism are also profiled. The conclusion provides readers with an opportunity to draw upon their new knowledge of The Christian Science Monitor's past to project its direction for the future.

Drawing on case studies, this collection offers international perspectives on how community media serves their audiences. The contributors present perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots. Their research represents participant observation, hands-on community involvement, boards of directors, content analysis, and ethical inquiries.

Drawing on case studies, this collection offers international perspectives on how community media serves their audiences. The contributors present perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots. Their research represents participant observation, hands-on community involvement, boards of directors, content analysis, and ethical inquiries.

From Martin Luther King Day to Waitangi Day, this collection surveys the gamut of national holidays. The celebrations analyzed include anniversaries of independence, religious observances, and government holidays. The analysis of each national day revolves around the role that communications play in uniting a country's citizenry. Entries cover individual countries but intertwine to provide a holistic view of the topic of national days. Countries covered: Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Japan, Kuwait, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the Ukraine, and the United States.

For many women, the advice “Use a condom!” is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, “negotiating” safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or economic equality. The book’s authors maintain that the key to curbing the spread of HIV and to caring for those already infected--is communication. Women and AIDS is the first volume to address HIV/AIDS and women from a communication perspective. This helpful guidebook addresses how women might achieve safer sexual and drug injection practices with partners, but it also explores women’s negotiation of the health care system as patients, medical research subjects, and caregivers. It challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between care providers and patients and the meaning of patient compliance and raises important questions about gender, race, and class that are exacerbated by the epidemic. Designed to ground interventions in the realities of women’s lives, Women and AIDS discusses what women can do to get around communication and health care obstacles. To this end, you will learn about:using the media for HIV-related social action and to promote women’s views of HIV and sexuality prison health care for HIV-positive women cultural constructions of sex and drug sharing in a variety of communities long-term changes that will empower women delivering an HIV-positive diagnosis to patients gender roles and caregiving the language we use to talk about “Third World” women and “Asian AIDS” women AIDS filmmakers/videographersFor the benefit of AIDS activists, health care providers, and counselors, Women and AIDS discusses women and their communication and awareness from virtually every angle. This book analyzes situations where communication breaks down--from the woman who can’t openly discuss safe sex with her partner, to the drunk college student who “hooks up,” to the doctor who gives an HIV-positive diagnosis without compassion--and offers communication solutions. This will help women avoid such risks, establish communication and safety in their lives, and construct meaningful roles in relationship to HIV/AIDS.

This work is a compilation of more than 3000 quotations on reading, writing, speaking, listening, and many other communications-related topics such as advertising, business, computers, education, film, journalism, language, photography, public relations, rhetoric, television, and world communications. The dictionary contains quotations from the classic to the contemporary, and all are arranged alphabetically, both by and within topics, by the author's last name.

Featuring over 200 recipes from more than 55 countries, Yogurt, Yoghurt, Youghourt is the cookbook for today's taste- and nutrition-conscious consumer. Linda Fuller provides easy-to-follow directions for a terrific selection of yogurt-containing international recipes for a delicious new approach to cooking. Just imagine Mulligatawny Soup, Molded Pineapple Salad, Cranberried Coffeecake, Irish Soda Bread, Greek Pastitsio, Scalloped Oysters, and German Chocolate Cake--all made with yogurt. For the yogurt-lover and the yet-to-be-converted, Yogurt, Yoghurt, Youghourt is a great source of recipes that are delicious, nutritious, and low in calories. Yogurt dates back to Biblical times, and there are references to yogurt in the works of Herodotus, Homer, Pliny, Galen, and other ancient historians and physicians. For thousands of years, yogurt has survived and become a staple in many diets. And now, here is a book full of new recipes that use this ancient food in a contemporary style. Yogurt, as an outstanding supplement to a well-balanced diet, can be included in every course in a meal. For example:start off right with hors d'oeuvres or appetizers such as Guatemalan Guacamole, Crabby Hawaiian Dip, Jamaican Curried Eggs, Japanese Gingered Shrimp, or German Party Meatballs continue with soups and salads such as Chilean Chicken-Corn Salad, Norwegian Salmon Salad, French Blueberry Bisque, Turkish Beef Soup, Creole Callaloo, and a variety of dressings for the main course, whether lunch, dinner, or supper, try one of these dishes: Balinese Braised Chicken, Bohemian Veal Roast, Italian Heroes, Polish Pike, Mexican Meal-in-a-Minute, and Yankee Red Flannel Hash round out meals with breads and cakes like Scottish Scones, Impeccable Pecan Muffins, Far Eastern Flat Bread, Albanian Nut Cake, Colombian Cocoa Cake, and Hussar Torte for that finishing touch, choices include Armenian Lemon Bars, Barbados Banana Pudding, Singapore Tapioca, Guy Fawkes Fingers, Greek Apple Crisp, Cuban Cheesecake, and Southern Pecan Pie and don't forget beverages--try Austrian Apricot Frost, Hearty Health Drink, Persian Abdug, Sweet Indian Lasse, or Turkish Yogurt Fizz for thirst quenchersEach section of recipes is alphabetized, making it easy to find the recipe you want quickly. All ingredients are precisely specified, but the innovative reader/cook is encouraged to experiment with flavors and textures. Whether you are familiar with the joys of yogurt or are just beginning to learn, these recipes are sure to get your mouth watering for Yogurt, Yoghurt, Youghourt.

Featuring over 200 recipes from more than 55 countries, Yogurt, Yoghurt, Youghourt is the cookbook for today's taste- and nutrition-conscious consumer. Linda Fuller provides easy-to-follow directions for a terrific selection of yogurt-containing international recipes for a delicious new approach to cooking. Just imagine Mulligatawny Soup, Molded Pineapple Salad, Cranberried Coffeecake, Irish Soda Bread, Greek Pastitsio, Scalloped Oysters, and German Chocolate Cake--all made with yogurt. For the yogurt-lover and the yet-to-be-converted, Yogurt, Yoghurt, Youghourt is a great source of recipes that are delicious, nutritious, and low in calories. Yogurt dates back to Biblical times, and there are references to yogurt in the works of Herodotus, Homer, Pliny, Galen, and other ancient historians and physicians. For thousands of years, yogurt has survived and become a staple in many diets. And now, here is a book full of new recipes that use this ancient food in a contemporary style. Yogurt, as an outstanding supplement to a well-balanced diet, can be included in every course in a meal. For example:start off right with hors d'oeuvres or appetizers such as Guatemalan Guacamole, Crabby Hawaiian Dip, Jamaican Curried Eggs, Japanese Gingered Shrimp, or German Party Meatballs continue with soups and salads such as Chilean Chicken-Corn Salad, Norwegian Salmon Salad, French Blueberry Bisque, Turkish Beef Soup, Creole Callaloo, and a variety of dressings for the main course, whether lunch, dinner, or supper, try one of these dishes: Balinese Braised Chicken, Bohemian Veal Roast, Italian Heroes, Polish Pike, Mexican Meal-in-a-Minute, and Yankee Red Flannel Hash round out meals with breads and cakes like Scottish Scones, Impeccable Pecan Muffins, Far Eastern Flat Bread, Albanian Nut Cake, Colombian Cocoa Cake, and Hussar Torte for that finishing touch, choices include Armenian Lemon Bars, Barbados Banana Pudding, Singapore Tapioca, Guy Fawkes Fingers, Greek Apple Crisp, Cuban Cheesecake, and Southern Pecan Pie and don't forget beverages--try Austrian Apricot Frost, Hearty Health Drink, Persian Abdug, Sweet Indian Lasse, or Turkish Yogurt Fizz for thirst quenchersEach section of recipes is alphabetized, making it easy to find the recipe you want quickly. All ingredients are precisely specified, but the innovative reader/cook is encouraged to experiment with flavors and textures. Whether you are familiar with the joys of yogurt or are just beginning to learn, these recipes are sure to get your mouth watering for Yogurt, Yoghurt, Youghourt.

Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies is the low-cal answer to satisfying chocolate cravings. Documenting the chocolate phenomenon by means of 1,000+ chocolate chunks of information, this tempting book discusses: Chocolate Fads: chocolate books, chocolate goodies (cakes, candy, cookies, ice cream), chocolate clubs, chocolate festivals, chocolate fund-raising, chocolate marketing, chocolate media, and chocolate novelties Chocolate Folklore: chocolate companies, chocolate history, chocolate nutrition, chocolate moguls, chocolate quotes, chocolate tips, chocolate trivia, and chocolate types Chocolate Fantasies: chocoholism, chocolate feasts, chocolate love, chocolate parties, chocolate promotions, and chocolate psychology. At the end of the book is a 200-item Chocoquiz, in the style of Trivial Pursuit, so that readers can use the book as a reference source to know everything there is to know about chocolate. Reference sections include acknowledgments to chocolate manufacturers, chocolate-related companies, a listing of chocolate publications (media articles, children's books, chocolate guides, cookbooks, chocolate humor, and chocolate specialities), and an impressive list of addresses and telephone numbers for more than 100 chocolate and chocolate-related companies. All chocoholics, out of the closet or not, will want to read this book. Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies promises to be the last word in chocolate, no fudging!

Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies is the low-cal answer to satisfying chocolate cravings. Documenting the chocolate phenomenon by means of 1,000+ chocolate chunks of information, this tempting book discusses: Chocolate Fads: chocolate books, chocolate goodies (cakes, candy, cookies, ice cream), chocolate clubs, chocolate festivals, chocolate fund-raising, chocolate marketing, chocolate media, and chocolate novelties Chocolate Folklore: chocolate companies, chocolate history, chocolate nutrition, chocolate moguls, chocolate quotes, chocolate tips, chocolate trivia, and chocolate types Chocolate Fantasies: chocoholism, chocolate feasts, chocolate love, chocolate parties, chocolate promotions, and chocolate psychology. At the end of the book is a 200-item Chocoquiz, in the style of Trivial Pursuit, so that readers can use the book as a reference source to know everything there is to know about chocolate. Reference sections include acknowledgments to chocolate manufacturers, chocolate-related companies, a listing of chocolate publications (media articles, children's books, chocolate guides, cookbooks, chocolate humor, and chocolate specialities), and an impressive list of addresses and telephone numbers for more than 100 chocolate and chocolate-related companies. All chocoholics, out of the closet or not, will want to read this book. Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies promises to be the last word in chocolate, no fudging!

At last, a collection in one volume informing the citizenry about a phenomenon that has existed for nearly a quarter century: community television represents our single source for media access in the United States. With more than 2,000 community groups providing some 15,000 hours of original programming each week--more than the annual output of ABC, CBS, and NBC combined--Community Television compares and contrasts broadcasting and grassroots cablecasting in the form of public, educational, and government (PEG) access. Fuller describes community television in terms of its history, its technical characteristics, and its legal, economic, political, and social concerns, highlighting the work of more than 150 related organizations and local television efforts from 100 cities and towns. She analyzes how competing exigencies and emerging communication technologies might threaten access in the future. Students, scholars, and professionals in television, communications, and public policy will find this reference a definitive one.

In this volume of the Beyond the Stars series, the subject of the various individual essays are discrete conventions of movie locales, but the subject of the volume as a whole-as with the other books in the series-is the viability of film convention studies as a tool for the study of film and American culture.

This anthology deals with such diverse conventions as the treatment of food, the iconography of weapons, the paraphernalia of baseball, the uses of clothing, tools, and technologies, and the representation of art and print media within the world of film. The essays within this collection help to reveal how the objects in American movies reflect both the fixed and changeable cultural assumptions of film makers and film audiences.

This volume chronicles the phenomenon of a television program that commanded first place for much of the time since its premiere in September 1984. Each week in the United States it has consistently drew a loyal audience of up to 60 million people, breaking records for ratings and shares. The show is credited with lifting a third-place network into commanding leadership, advancing the image of black families, being the object of the greatest syndication barter deal in history, and regenerating the sitcom genre. Approached from a systems-theoretical perspective, this book considers The Cosby Show historically, economically, politically, legally, and socioculturally. The book provides detailed examination of the show's production, audience profiles, and international reviews and reactions to it. Fuller includes the results of a survey conducted by her (and translated into appropriate languages) for more than 800 responses from a dozen countries. Media scholars continue to call for future research on acculturation effects of television and for research on complete, contextual studies of specific television genres. The Cosby Show: Audiences, Impact and Implications attempts to fill those gaps.