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.
Simulacra and Mimesis in Walt Disney World
Simulacra and Mimesis in Walt Disney World By Stacy Cacciatore The readings and videos couldn’t have been more apropos this week, as I visited Walt Disney World at the same …
Fativism
My area of interest is the intersection of media rhetoric and the effect on women’s body image. The media plays a tremendous role in sending mixed messages to women about …
Love, Sex and Ziti: A rhetorical analysis of gendered identity as represented by food, desire and patriarchy in The Sopranos
Abstract: This article examined the semiotic representation of food symbolizing love, sex, and desire in The Sopranos. Throughout the television series The Sopranos, food served as a semiotic representation of love, sex, and desire. Women were portrayed …
Book Review – Tasteful Domesticity by Sarah Walden
In Tasteful Domesticity, Sarah Walden explores the scholarship on cookbooks and how they’ve served as a rhetorical space for women in nineteenth-century America. She claims that Tasteful Domesticity is the …
Cacciatore On Isocrates
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