Dead Ringers Review By Stacy Cacciatore I watched the Cronenberg film, Dead Ringers this week for the first time, in preparation for this class, and I certainly feel that it …
Night of the Living Dead – Review
Night of the Living Dead Review By Stacy Cacciatore In Night of the Living Dead (1968), words are not only unpersuasive, but the lack of communication among the living leads …
Get Out – Review
Get Out Review By Stacy Cacciatore When analyzing Get Out from a rhetorical hermeneutics perspective, I noticed the objectification of the black male body. For example, in the garden party scene, all …
Groundhog Day Review
In Groundhog Day, Phil, played by Bill Murry, has the opportunity to perfect his persuasive pitch to convince Rita, played by Andi MacDowell, that they are meant to be together. …
Rhetoric in Do the Right Thing
In Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, the writer, producer, and director, employs several rhetorical strategies to articulate the primary message in the film, which is that we need to ‘do …
Martin Arnold Piéce touchée (1989) Review
In the video Piéce touchée (1989) by Martin Arnold, I conducted a bit of research and found that this 16-minute film is based on an 18-second long segment of a …
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. …