The film Pocahontas surges from American history. It shares a story amongst two distinct people: Pocahontas (Native American) and John smith (English Settler). Both of these characters emerge on a relationship, but face several barriers. In addition, their culture, ways of life, and costumes are far from the same. The film’s storyline is criticized for…
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Critical Rhetorical Criticism – New Possibilities
Critical Rhetorical Criticism shares the new possibilities in a text. It shows the alternative when something new can come out from all the bad. However, the intended new possibility can fail too. When a new possibility presents itself in a text we see more to the character or characters, and the text can take us…
Critical Rhetoric – Naming
Naming or name calling can be a powerful tool used in films/shows to show the identity of one. Also how a person or groups refer to each other in a certain environment. Naming also applies to how a group, person, refers themselves to be. Naming ultimately is used to create or reinforce one’s culture. Through…
Tropes – Metaphor
Conceptual metaphors are symbols used to illustrate the representation of something of some sort. For example, we associate fire with desire and life similarly to a journey. Foss reminds us, ‘‘Metaphor is a basic way by which the process of using symbols to know reality occurs” (Lewis, 204). Metaphors are used to project a form…
Visual Codes
Visual codes are looked at when unpacking to create an overall meaning of a story, “When a technique suggests a meaning to a viewer, then we have achieved symbolic function” (Butler, Pg 61). However, camera shots, imagery, and color are also big parts of the visuals in a text, “As a contribution to the ongoing…
Genre
Genre consists of different elements that categorized a group of texts into one. It is used to create categorizations in order to differentiate from other forms of pieces of work, “The aim of genre studies is to bring order, structure, and stability to a group of texts sharing similar characteristics–including characters, plots, themes, and settings–so…
Neo-Classical: Modes of proof – Ethos
Modes of proof consists of different forms one can use in order to analyze how a specific text is able to suede an audience. It consists of logos, pathos, and ethos. Logos is an appeal to reason, pathos is appeal to emotion, and ethos consists of how a character is judged based on having good…
Narrative
In narrative the audience has a storyline which is being followed. However, it is important to address from whose perspective we are looking at. Different characters give us a different view of how a specific story is being played out. A different view of the story help us, the audience, understand the narrative of the…
Pentad: Act and Agent
Burke’s Pentad method consists of five parts: act, scene, agency, purpose, and agent. Act is what happened; it has to be commutative or rhetorical. The scene can include: time, setting, location, community, in essence: when something happens, where did it occur. The agent is the who: roles a person plays. The how is agency; can…
Close Text Analysis
Close textual analysis is slowing down the text and breaking it down when analyzing every decision about the text or the specific scene. We as critics are analyzing exactly what is happening inside the context. Close text is the analysis of the text that dives deep into its observations. In the beginning of the movie…
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