Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube have made it likely that students participate in online back... more Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube have made it likely that students participate in online back-and-forth exchanges that infuence their rhetorical literacy. Because of the back-and-forth nature of online communities, we turn to the procedural, critical, and progressive qualities of dialectic as a means of accounting for what makes public deliberation effective and how we can teach students to deliberate.
I wrote this paper in 2008. While I've been criticized for my use of Burke and identification, th... more I wrote this paper in 2008. While I've been criticized for my use of Burke and identification, the close reading I do of the film is pretty interesting. Someday I'd like to revisit this and get Burke right. With that I think it would be a good essay.
The basic idea is that films achieving cult status do so because of how identification works between the author of the film and his or her audience. I use Metz and his vernacular of cinema to look at the first 10 minutes of the movie, and how deliberate strategies have led the film to be perceived as a cult film.
I look at the recent (2007) increase in attention given to Rachel Carson's novel _Silent Spring_,... more I look at the recent (2007) increase in attention given to Rachel Carson's novel _Silent Spring_, and assess what is taking place in the news articles about her (and her book).
Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube have made it likely that students participate in online back... more Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube have made it likely that students participate in online back-and-forth exchanges that infuence their rhetorical literacy. Because of the back-and-forth nature of online communities, we turn to the procedural, critical, and progressive qualities of dialectic as a means of accounting for what makes public deliberation effective and how we can teach students to deliberate.
I wrote this paper in 2008. While I've been criticized for my use of Burke and identification, th... more I wrote this paper in 2008. While I've been criticized for my use of Burke and identification, the close reading I do of the film is pretty interesting. Someday I'd like to revisit this and get Burke right. With that I think it would be a good essay.
The basic idea is that films achieving cult status do so because of how identification works between the author of the film and his or her audience. I use Metz and his vernacular of cinema to look at the first 10 minutes of the movie, and how deliberate strategies have led the film to be perceived as a cult film.
I look at the recent (2007) increase in attention given to Rachel Carson's novel _Silent Spring_,... more I look at the recent (2007) increase in attention given to Rachel Carson's novel _Silent Spring_, and assess what is taking place in the news articles about her (and her book).
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The basic idea is that films achieving cult status do so because of how identification works between the author of the film and his or her audience. I use Metz and his vernacular of cinema to look at the first 10 minutes of the movie, and how deliberate strategies have led the film to be perceived as a cult film.
The basic idea is that films achieving cult status do so because of how identification works between the author of the film and his or her audience. I use Metz and his vernacular of cinema to look at the first 10 minutes of the movie, and how deliberate strategies have led the film to be perceived as a cult film.