Thesis--University of Wisconsin. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 267-272).

Thomas Goodnight’s definition of controversy offers an initial examination of Reverend Donald Wildmon and Reverend Pat Robertson’s attack of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), initiating the Culture Wars of 1989. Using their most reliable communication tactics, Wildmon and Robertson attempted to garner support for their values by manufacturing controversy related to government funding of the National Endowment for the Arts. Together, they manufacture social controversy around two inter-related themes, one of morality, in which they argued Christians were being persecuted by the art community, and the other against federal funding of objectionable art, using Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe as symbols of corruption. In addition to the initial attacks on Serrano and Mapplethorpe, my rhetorical analysis illustrates how Wildmon’s and Robertson’s rhetoric seemingly sanctioned the manufacturing of a social controversy regarding the Federal funding for objectionable art as a way to promote their pro-family and anti-homosexual agenda.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University at Normal, 1966. / Title from title page screen, viewed Aug. 4, 2004. Dissertation committee: Ben Hubbard (chair), Clayton Thomas, Douglas Poe. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-167). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: William P. Anderson. Dissertation Committee: Richard Lindeman. Bibliography: leaves 112-116.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1979. / Title from title page screen, viewed. Dissertation Committee: Ben C. Hubbard (chair), Ronald Halinski, G. Alan Hickrod, Ronald Laymon, Harvey Woods. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-106) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1975. / Title from title page screen, viewed Nov. 8, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Benjamin C. Hubbard (chair), G. Alan Hickrod, Clayton F. Thomas, Ronald L. Laymon, Vernon C. Pohlmann. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-158) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1975. / Title from title page screen, viewed Nov. 18, 2004. Dissertation Committee: G. Alan Hickrod (chair), Ben Hubbard, Jon Peterson, Douglas Poe, Vernon Pohlmann. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-140) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1988. / Title from title page screen, viewed September 21, 2005. Dissertation Committee: G. Alan Hickrod (chair), Ramesh B. Chaudhari, Edward R. Hines, Franklin G. Matsler, Patricia McKenzie. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-132) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1989. / Title from title page screen, viewed October 24, 2005. Dissertation Committee: G. Alan Hickrod (chair), Robert L. Arnold, Ramesh B. Chaudhari, Chris Eisele, William L. Hinrichs. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-78) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 56 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-43).