Thompson,Scott+K

Homework #1



Questions:


 * Was the text you examined, in fact, rhetoric? Justify your answer using what we've read so far.**
 * The artifact that I chose to analyze for this paper was the film Kill Bill. However, looking back I have to admit that this artifact was in no way rhetoric. As both Bryant and Natanson state rhetoric is at its core **spoken** discourse and while a movie does utilize speech in its narrative, this film is primarily entertainment and in no way was intended to create a dialogue between itself and its audience as some films do. This is not to say that I believe that film cannot be rhetoric, but, at least this film was not.


 * What does __your__ study teach someone about how the message studied worked as rhetoric? (If it didn't, freely admit that and explain what it did do.)**
 * As I stated above I do not believe that my artifact was rhetoric and at some level I believe that I realized this as I was writing this paper. I utilized the Fantasy theme form of analysis for this paper but while I feel that I gave a decent overview of this form of analysis I do not feel that I adequately applied it to this paper. As I previously stated I feel that I knew that this artifact did not work as rhetoric so I made no attempt to convince my audience of this. Instead I got wrapped up in the history of one of the major fantasy themes in this artifact and explored that to the exclusion of all else.