Award Date
1-1-2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication Studies
First Committee Member
Joseph A. Valenzano, III.
Number of Pages
149
Abstract
The Roman Catholic Church has engaged in moral criticism throughout history and continues to do so today through movie reviews published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The history of the Roman Catholic Church's censorship of moral content includes controlling the amount and type of media available. This rhetorical analysis of both the USCCB and New York Times movie reviews for the top ten grossing movies of 2006 discusses rhetoric as an expression of meaning that emerges through a texts' historical and cultural situation. Both sets of reviews are found on the Internet and this analysis argues that they contribute to the Roman Catholic Church's ongoing attempts to influence morality in the absence of moral criticism in popular culture media.
Keywords
Advocacy; Bishops; Catholic; Century; Church; Conference; First; Public; Roman; Twenty; United States
Controlled Subject
Religion; Religious education
File Format
File Size
3225.6 KB
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Cannella, Michele L, "Public advocacy by the Roman Catholic Church and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in the twenty-first century" (2008). UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations. 2341.
http://dx.doi.org/10.25669/mfyp-xhrn
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