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Direct linkRosteck, Thomas; Frentz, Thomas S. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2009
Contesting interpretations of "An Inconvenient Truth" that treat it as political jeremiad, autobiography, or science documentary, we contextualize the film within Joseph Campbell's monomyth and argue that its rhetorical efficacy arises in part because Al Gore's personal transformation animates the documentary footage with jeremiad advocacy. In…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Environmental Interpretation, Documentaries
