Rhetorical Criticism, Literary Criticism, Popular Culture & Mediated Communication
Favorite Music
Joe Williams
Billie Holiday
Charlie ''Yardbird'' Parker
Harry Chapin
Sarah Brightman
Diane Krall
Frankie Laine
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Phil Ochs
Frank Sinatra
Rupert Holmes
Any music and compositions by Justin Taylor Capps
Favorite Books
Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
Kenneth Burke's Language as Symbolic Action
Robert Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Personal Persuasion
Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Assorted works of:
Erich Fromm
Erik Erikson
Esther & Jerry Hicks
Joe Vitale
W. Clement Stone
Otto Rank.
Favorite Movies
Duel
Blazing Saddles
The Secret
The High and the Mighty
High Noon
The Shawshank Redemption
Thomas Crown Affair
The Green Mile
Breaker Morant
Gallipoli
Somewhere in Time