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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Visual Rhetoric"”.
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Picturing the environment: Documerica's visual rhetoric of interconnectedness
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Vox populi: Visual rhetoric methodology for medieval Apocalyptic Art
… thought is present in almost every form of visual rhetoric we know: photography, art, paintings, sculptures, illuminations, and cinematography. Christian Art is permeated with images of the Apocalypse. Particularly the art of the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages, the Book of Revelation …
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TOWARD A VISUAL PAIDEIA: VISUAL RHETORIC IN UNDERGRADUATE WRITING PROGRAMS
… as rich and dynamic combinations of verbal, visual, and aural elements. Instruction in visual rhetoric in the writing classroom, however, has tended to focus on analysis with far less emphasis on teaching students how to produce multimodal texts. Drawing upon classical rhetorical theory, I …
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'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate
… found in Chapter Two, examines the most complete visual representation of this myth in state art on the Ara Pacts Augustae, Altar of Augustan Peace, and how traditional rhetorical techniques are at work on the altar. Chapter Three focuses on the political myth as represented on coins from the …
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Offensive weapons: Herblock and the visual rhetoric of postwar liberalism
… researchers to interrogate large corpora of visual artifacts. In doing so, this dissertation reveals new insights into how a prominent member of the liberal mainstream interpreted and presented the events of the day and reveals how Block's cartoons, far from simply reflecting liberal …
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Global justice buzz : the visual rhetoric of the Beehive Design Collective
… I argue that the Bees' creative use of material rhetorics that combine art with political storytelling should be valued as an effective form of visual rhetoric, and that learning from their methods could help other activists and academics better articulate their critiques of globalization and …
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Contributions of supra-level design to visual rhetoric in quilt books
<p>Visual rhetoric is "the ability of the writer to achieve the purpose of a document through visual communication" ("Visual Rhetoric" 77). The success of visual rhetoric depends upon the extent to which a document's visual elements consider audience, purpose, and context. For example, if a …
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Remaking China Dolls: Imitation and Visual Rhetoric in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production
… Chinese doll imageries as an emblem of a rhetoric of imitation playing out a variety of possibilities of identities in an increasingly globalized yet unequally developed world. Grounded in a postmodern interpretation of Barthes' flowing signification chain and with Baudrillard's analysis …
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Bangladeshi Political Cartoons as Visual Rhetoric in the Context of Anti-Free Speech Laws
Guided by Sonja Foss' (2005) theory of visual rhetoric, this thesis is an exploration of political cartoons from Bangladesh, published between October 2016 - October 2020. The study is framed by the Digital Security Act (DSA), an anti-freedom of speech law enacted by the ruling Awami League …
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Designing For A Japanese High-context Culture: Culture's Influence On The Technical Writer's Visual Rhetoric
… the United States. Thus, the Japanese often use visuals for their aesthetic appeal, not for their ability to complement the text that surrounds the visual. The ambiguous nature of high-context culture communication habits often pose problems when Americans try to communicate--whether through …
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From the Margins to the Middle: Making Room for Visual Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom
<p>This study examines the potential role of visuals in a first-year composition classroom. Essential theoretical questions include whether visual images have rhetorical power, and specifically, whether they can sustain an argument. If we suppose that visual images, like verbal texts, can be …
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From rituals to films: a case study of the visual rhetoric of Igbo culture in Nolywood films
Many reasons have been advanced as to why the video film industry in Nigeria has been so successful financially and in building loyal audiences among Africans around the world. The present thesis argues that Nollywood films help to provide a time and a place for resolving deep-felt tensions in an …
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Anarchist Strategy and Visual Rhetoric in Brazil, 1970: The Living Theatre as “The People in the Street”
… philosophies of anarchism and pacifism. The visual implications of these findings are discussed in the theatre's advertising campaign for a 1971 lecture tour titled, "Theatre and the Revolution". Although a project engaged in marketing revolutionary ideas, these posters drew their image …
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Graffiti and Rhetoric
… artist of study, this thesis adapts present rhetorical research to understand the importance of location, timing, and credibility for the visual rhetor. Visual Rhetoric is a rapidly growing segment of the communication discipline. Graffiti as a method of communication offers an interesting …
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"""You can fool some of the people some of the time"": perspective by incongruity in Ballyhoo magazine, 1931-1932"
… from Ballyhoo magazine (1931-1932) as a form of visual rhetoric. I analyze the visual rhetoric of Ballyhoo to illustrate how it treated three important issues of 1930s America. First, Ballyhoo portrays Prohibition as a detrimental policy and scapegoats its creators and maintainers. Second, …
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Existing without permission: a visual rhetorical analysis on Banksy's NOLA children and the betrayal of authority
… also advances the interpretative framework for Visual Rhetoric. Close Textual Analysis and Kenneth Burke's Dramatistic Pentad combine as methods informed by scholarship in visual design and visual rhetoric. The study concludes by noting Banksy’s condemnation of authority figures for their role …
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The Rhetorical Criteria of Kennedy's Camelot
<p>John F. Kennedy's presidential rhetoric reflects key criteria necessary for creating and sustaining the American Camelot myth. That myth was successfully ingrained within the American psyche through the use of visual rhetoric, campaign speech rhetoric, and crisis time rhetoric. Moreover, the …
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Image selling: how depictions of power relations, plasticity, and abjection in high-fashion advertisements construct terrifying social narratives
… examines how high-fashion advertisements use visual rhetoric in order to construct social narratives related to power struggles, plasticity, and abjection. In creating these types of images, high-fashion advertisers send explicit messages to their viewers regarding the ways they should engage …
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
… analysis to reassess longstanding notions in rhetorical theory and moral philosophy (via classical rhetoric and technical communication). In particular, I use diachronic analyses of the terms telos, symbouleutikon, and sympheron (from Aristotle to present) as a theoretical springboard to …
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The vision we share: Identification of Call of Duty's militaristic messages
… other media. Speficially, there is a lack of rhetorical analysis of the persuasive messages embedded within videogames. This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare using a Burkean analysis and a critical analysis to determine that Modern Warfare’s use of the …
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