Simulacra and Mimesis in Walt Disney World
Simulacra and Mimesis in Walt Disney World By Stacy Cacciatore The readings and videos couldn’t have been more apropos this week, as I visited Walt Disney World at the same …
Book Review: Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics
Book Review: Food, Feminisms, Rhetoric by Melissa Goldwaithe by Stacy Cacciatore Historically, the study of women and food has been deemed unworthy of scholarly attention. Melissa Goldwaithe turns this on its’ …
Fativism
My area of interest is the intersection of media rhetoric and the effect on women’s body image. The media plays a tremendous role in sending mixed messages to women about …
Love, Sex and Ziti: A rhetorical analysis of gendered identity as represented by food, desire and patriarchy in The Sopranos
Abstract: This article examined the semiotic representation of food symbolizing love, sex, and desire in The Sopranos. Throughout the television series The Sopranos, food served as a semiotic representation of love, sex, and desire. Women were portrayed …
Book Review – Tasteful Domesticity by Sarah Walden
In Tasteful Domesticity, Sarah Walden explores the scholarship on cookbooks and how they’ve served as a rhetorical space for women in nineteenth-century America. She claims that Tasteful Domesticity is the …
Cacciatore On Isocrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_1spZLre8
Preplatonic Philosophers
Stacy Cacciatore To understand Plato and Socrates, we must first understand the philosophers that came before them. At first, I was confused at the difference between the terms …
Cacciatore’s Views On Plato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXDDa4qeVQ&t=1s