What People Said
Video Reviews Running Mate
“An excellent choice for womens’ studies students and political junkies” Booklist, Feb. ‘94
“**** 4 Stars – Highly Recommended!…a great vehicle for generating group discussion in both adult academic and nonacademic settings.” Video Rating Guide for Libraries, Sum. ‘94
Drawing Conclusions
“An excellent resource for classes in rhetoric, visual communication, political discourse and gender studies. … a source of spirited classroom discussion and innovative assignments.” Diane S. Hope, Professor of Rhetoric and Visual Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology
“A scintillating look into the role of editorial cartoons in influencing, legitimizing and perpetuating stereotyped beliefs about gender differences…. The most wonderful aspect … is that it functions as a point of departure for discussion, guides the viewer into drawing his/her own conclusions.” Donna Kowal, Assistant Professor, Communications, SUNY Brockport
"An excellent springboard for a discussion with your class about gender stereotypes. …. clearly demonstrates that strong, assertive women are especially likely to be the victims of discrimination and bias.” The Psychology of Women
"… succinctly and incisively helps viewers understand the nature of political satire and its place in American journalism. An excellent framework for class discussion and further research." Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Spring 2000
“As an experienced and insightful professor, Dr. Miller has a keen eye for teaching materials which have the depth to provide valuable information and multiple perspectives, and which at the same time stimulate the student’s critical thinking skills through humor. Her use of editorial cartoons has been exemplary for these purposes.” Bernard Petit, Professor Emeritus, SUNY Brockport and Cultural Videomaker
“The videos are exceptionally well-developed products that appeal to audiences in a range of academic disciplines including, for example, women’s studies, political science, sociology, and communication.” Dylan M. McGinty, First Run Icarus Films
From workshops/presentations:
“You really wowed them at Chautauqua! Your talk and video presentation on Hillary Clinton in Editorial Cartoons … was amazing and wonderful. I suppose your audience could guess, but only just guess, as to the amount of work that went into selecting the cartoons, locating and synchronizing accompanying music, interviewing the cartoonists, editing and ordering the tape.” Meredith Rousseau, Chautauqua Women’s Club
“I’ve always hoped to get in on one of your cartoon presentations, and finally made it! …I had such an extraordinary time …. I’ve always been interested in the various uses of language, often pursuing them with my composition classes and sometimes literature as well. But I see now that I had underestimated the power of the cartoon as a means of delivering one’s message.” Dr. Philip Gerber, Prof. of Philosophy, SUNY Brockport
“Everyone thoroughly enjoyed your excellent editorial cartoon presentation. Such a learning experience can certainly provoke thinking out of the box.” Carol Bott, Western Monroe Historical Society
“… thank you for your wonderful presentation at Mornings with the Professors. The group was fascinated – they were still commenting the next week.” Linda Sweeting, College Development Department, SUNY Brockport
"Thanks so much for the thought-provoking and entertaining presentation .... I'm sure you could tell from the comments and size of the audience that you were an outstanding part of our Pfaudler Series." Deanna Shifton, Atheneum, R.I.T., Rochester, NY
“… thank you again for participating in our Faculty Features series. Your presentation was quite interesting – I enjoyed it immensely.” Pam O’Sullivan, SUNY Brockport
“Many thanks for the excellent presentation. I think it was one of the best Rotary programs we had all year. It was inspiring, thoughtful, and hopeful (and it had music!)” Mary Jo Orzech, President Brockport Rotary
“Your talk had quite an impact – at least on my vision of women in politics.” Professor Beth Van Fossen, Women’s Studies, SUNY Brockport
From Faculty Development Workshops -- anonymous:
Quantitative response: 90% of participants in workshop at Rochester Institute of Technology rated the effectiveness of the workshop leader as 5 (on a scale of 1-5).
“An interesting workshop. I’m going to start using editorial cartoons in my class.”
“Watching a prepared presentation such as this one sparked ideas about other ways to apply the ideas. Thanks, Elaine!”
Students in classes -- anonymous:
“Ever since we had our guest speaker, I have been reading all the comics in the newspapers. I was really impressed with her speaking.”
“I really enjoyed this video. The cartoonists were great…. Some of the cartoons were exceptionally funny. Having a woman cartoonist’s point of view was also great.”
“Go, Hillary! I really enjoyed that video. You see political cartoons in the paper every day, but it’s only one or two at a time. I found it very interesting to see so many different portrayals of this one strong woman…. I liked hearing the cartoonists talk about where their inspiration and opinions come from and how they choose to portray them in one bold, penciled statement. Especially the women.”
“Well, I laughed.”
“Well made. Some outrageously offensive cartoons/bumper stickers, some really funny – great interview with female cartoonist. … interesting, informative, provocative, and funny.”
“One thing I really liked about the video was how the woman cartoonist showed a different perspective on not only issues regarding Hillary, but on all different situations.”
“I found it fascinating that there are so many different views on one topic [Hillary Clinton as First Lady].”
“I was astonished to see how the woman cartoonist and the male cartoonists were so different…. I never thought about editorial cartoonists as being a masculine job, but it really seems to be. What the woman said about how little girls are raised not to be forceful and outspoken really made me think about our society.”
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