Thought this CFP might be of interest to Screen-Lers.
 
Dave Blakesley
 
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                        _The Terministic Screen:
                Rhetorical Perspectives on Film and Film Theory_
 
The moving image has the power to instill belief, to move people to act,
physically or incipiently, and thus to react to, create, imagine or
re-imagine their worlds. The interanimation of word-image on film
appeals to the natural impulse for people to identify with each other or
with fictional characters: to cajole, inveigh against, rally, mislead,
frighten, teach, enlist, delight, persuade, transform, subject the
Other(s) or the self in the partisan interest of living a good life.
And thus, film shares many functions with rhetoric, *as* a form of
rhetoric.
 
The proposed volume, _The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on
Film and Film Theory_, will collect essays devoted to reading films
rhetorically--as media that dramatize or interrogate the ways people use
language and images to tell stories and foster identification--and to
theorizing cinematic interpretation.  Specific topics/films are open,
but here are some suggestions:
 
Rhetorical/technical dynamics of narrative/narration/narrators
Viewing and visual representation as forms of literacy
Projection/construction/invocation of character (e.g., ethos,
subjectivity, etc.)
The rhetoric of spectatorship and identification
Representations of literacy, oratory, persuasion, and/or writing in
specific films
Visual rhetorics (e.g., the "rhetoric" of cinematography)
The interanimation of sound/word/image
Rhetorical and ideological appeals in film
Rhetorical approaches to/in film theory and criticism
The rhetoric of particular genres
 
Proposals (250-500 words) should be sent by June 15, 1997 to Dr. David
Blakesley, Dept. of English, Southern Illinois University--Carbondale,
Carbondale, Illinois, 62901-4503. Final essays will need to be 15-25
(double-spaced) pages, but prospective authors are encouraged to inquire
before submitting complete essays.
 
Advance queries by e-mail to [log in to unmask] or phone (618/453-6830) are
welcome. Proposals (preferably following MLA guidelines) may be sent
electronically.
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David Blakesley            Department of English
Associate Professor,       Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Rhetoric and Composition   Carbondale, IL 62901-4503
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