Film in the Advanced Composition Classroom: A Tapestry of Style.

This article advances film as worthy of rhetorical inquiry and deserving of more sustained attention in the advanced composition classroom. The first section identifies various approaches to the "language" of film, which can be adopted to navigate the technical, rhetorical, and cultural concerns nee...

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Published in:Composition Forum Vol. 32; pp. 6 - 7
Main Author: Durst, Pearce
Format: Article
Published: Composition Forum Fall2015
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