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Peer reviewedMedhurst, Martin J.; Benson, Thomas W. – Communication Monographs, 1981
Case study of Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke's classic documentary, "The City," a work of cinematic art and a record of the problems confronting urban planners. Discusses how the film builds a rhythmic pattern through dramatic structure, image content and composition, editing, music, and narration to enhance its rhetorical appeal. (JMF)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Documentaries, Film Study, Films
Glusberg, Jorge – 1977
This monograph posits a rhetorical theory of video-art and presents perspectives on the status of video-art in Latin America. Video-art, which utilizes technology in the field of aesthetics, is perceived as fundamentally rhetorical and stylistic. Conclusions about the form include the comments that the analysis of visual messages is possible…
Descriptors: Art, Foreign Countries, Latin American Culture, Mass Media
