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 movie from the 1950s. In Martin Arnold’s signature style, that we saw in the two previous films we watched in class (Alone. Life Wastes Andy … [Read more…]
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 that had to have been far-fetched in the year 1968. When this film was made, we had not even gone to the moon yet, however, … [Read more…]
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. Throughout this movie, I noticed was that Smith seemed to act more like a boy than a man. One component that wasn’t clear to me … [Read more…]
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. Blakesley (2003) defines four approaches to film rhetoric (film as language, film as ideology, film interpretation and film identification) and he explains how each approach … [Read more…]