While the City Slept by Eli Sanders By Stacy Cacciatore This book was written by a journalist who wrote about the murder of two women in 2009 by a young man …
Sexual Harassment in Forbidden Planet
In Simulacra and Simulations, Baudrillard (1994) introduces us to simulacra, which is a copy of something that no longer has an original and simulation, which is the imitation of a …
Review – 2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey, functions as prophetic rhetoric. It’s pretty amazing to watch this film in the year 2019 and recognize the sheer number of technological predictions that came to fruition …
2001: A Space Odyssey – The Eye
I thought I was being particularly insightful when I told my husband a quarter of the way through 2001: A Space Odyssey that I noticed Kubrick seemed to be focusing …
Boyhood in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, we meet Jefferson Smith a naïve scout leader who is brought into a position of Senator because it is believed he will follow orders. …
Slappin’ Time in Modern Times
Using ‘film as ideology’ one can analyze how the rhetoric In Modern Times (1936) serves ideological purposes. As Blakesley states in TheTerministic Screen, “As a cultural expression, films reveal not …
What is Rhetoric?
What is Rhetoric? By W.A. Covino and D. Jolliffe is one of the best articles I’ve read on the background and basic principles of rhetoric. The authors’ address at the forefront …
Review – Hitchcock’s Vertigo
I had never seen a Hitchcock film before, so watching Vertigo (1958) and reading Blakesley’s Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock’s Vertigo in Defining Visual Rhetorics (2004), was quite eye-opening for me. …
Rosebud – Film Rhetoric Review – Citizen Kane
“Rosebud” That simple one-word phrase that Charles Kane utters on his death bed leads us on a quest to understand who this man is and the mystery of Rosebud. Throughout …
Ethnography
An overview of Ethnography, specifically the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, Metraux, Batille and Mauss. Overview of Nambikwara tribe and studies of rituals, reading and writing.