Wow. I had to pause in the middle of reading your Rhetorical Analysis papers to post this video. Mark, from the 11:55 class, has chosen these New Balance ads for his text up for analysis. I was so shocked at this commercial…it is soooooo sexual. To sell sneakers! I don’t know why I am shocked [...]
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“Running has a very hot friend.” WTF???!!
Posted in advertising, class discussion post, gender, image, television on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Argument Project…more ideas!
Posted in advertising, class discussion post, gender, image, in-class freewrite, movies, television on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some of you are still struggling with topics for your Argument Project, despite the Prospectus you wrote. Just a few ideas below (along with the rest of this blog) on issues of argument that all relate—or can relate if argued properly—to popular culture. Remember that your argument paper requires you to be persuasive to a [...]
Topic for class discussion: Pieto and Otter essay
Posted in class discussion post, television on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In “The Osbournes: Genre, Reality TV, and the Domestication of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” authors Pieto and Otter argue,
“Up to this point we have had only two myths for aging rock stars: old Mick and dead Janis. Rock stars either rust or fade away. Ozzy provides us the intimate details of an older rock star as [...]
Topic for class discussion: Mayer essay
Posted in advertising, class discussion post, music on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In “The New Sexual Stone Age,” Andre Mayer introduces his essay by noting the Britney Spears Pepsi commerical that ran during Super Bowl XXXVI. He then argues,
“In song, females are oppugned; in videos, they’re trotted up like bimbos and objectified” (284).
After viewing the commercial below, let’s discuss how you either agree or disagree with Mayer’s [...]
Topic for class discussion: claims and support
Posted in advertising, class discussion post on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As promised in class today…
Posted in class discussion post on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Topic for Class Discussion: Critical Thinking
Posted in class discussion post, gender, movies on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lolita, 1962
Topic for Class Discussion: Rhetorical Appeals
Posted in advertising, class discussion post on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Let’s use the below ads to discuss ethos, pathos and logos, also audience and purpose:
Topic for Class Discussion
Posted in class discussion post, image on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Tannen’s essay, “There is no Unmarked Woman,” she argues,
“The term ‘marked’ is a staple of linguistic theory. It refers to the way language alters the base meaning of a word by adding a linguistic particle that has no meaning on its own. The unmarked form of a word carries the meaning that goes without [...]
Topic for Class Discussion
Posted in class discussion post, digital media on September 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the Introduction to our course text, the authors introduced semiotics—the study of signs—and outlined an example for you using the VW Beetle. At the end of the Introduction, they summarized their methodology for interpreting signs into two principles:
“The meaning of a sign can be found not in itself but in its relationships (both differences [...]
