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Toward a Rhetoric of Film: Theory and Classroom Praxis

Wetherbee, Benjamin James
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313119045

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2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This thesis examines the rhetoric of film from both theoretical and pedagogical perspectives. It provides a summary of prior scholarship on film in composition classes and film as rhetoric, and, from that foundation, builds a series of theoretical heuristics on the rhetoric of film. This theoretical section relies mainly on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism and on classical rhetorical theory attributed to Aristotle, Cicero, and others. Provided, also, is a close rhetorical reading of the movie Blade Runner, which demonstrates how this theory might be applied to specific films. Finally, this paper discusses the uses of film in rhetoric-based composition curricula, providing two sample writing assignments that integrate film and rhetorical theory.
Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jason Palmeri, PhD (Committee Member)
John Heyda, PhD (Committee Member)
106 p.
Composition; Film Studies; Pedagogy; Rhetoric
film; rhetoric; composition; movies; cinema; ethos; pathos; logos; paideia; commonplace; topos; Mikhail Bakhtin; utterance; speech genre; heteroglossia; chronotope; classical rhetoric; pedagogy; Aristotle; Cicero; Roland Barthes; Blade Runner

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  • Wetherbee, B. J. (2011). Toward a Rhetoric of Film: Theory and Classroom Praxis [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313119045

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wetherbee, Benjamin. Toward a Rhetoric of Film: Theory and Classroom Praxis. 2011. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313119045.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wetherbee, Benjamin. "Toward a Rhetoric of Film: Theory and Classroom Praxis." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313119045

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