The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film examines
the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory.
Rhetorical approaches to film studies have been widely practiced,
but rarely discussed until now. Taking on such issues as Hollywood
blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics,
editor David Blakesley presents fifteen critical essays that
examine rhetoric's role in such popular films as ""The Fifth
Element"", ""The Last Temptation of Christ"", ""The Usual
Suspects"", ""Deliverance"", ""The English Patient"", ""Pulp
Fiction"", ""The Music Man"", ""Copycat"", ""Hoop Dreams"", and ""A
Time to Kill"". Aided by sixteen illustrations, these insightful
essays consider films rhetorically, as ways of seeing and not
seeing, as acts that dramatize how people use language and images
to tell stories and foster identification. Contributors include
David Blakesley, Alan Nadel, Ann Chisholm, Martin J. Medhurst,
Byron Hawk, Ekaterina V. Haskins, James Roberts, Thomas W. Benson,
Philip L. Simpson, Davis W. Houck, Caroline J. S. Picart,
Friedemann Weidauer, Bruce Krajewski, Harriet Malinowitz, Granetta
L. Richardson, and Kelly Ritter.
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