Saturday, 8 March 2014

RHETORIC KEEPING FILM INTO PERSPECTIVE

The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (136)

The earlier movie theorists or director never imagined the medium of film as it flickered and lively before them, one could barely expect classical rhetoricians as a skilled way of arts imagination.
In earlier period they lacked technology and many forms of expression, but they lived in the same set of senses as we do. Rhetorical analysis of the movies is called textual analysis. Rhetorical analysis is an encounter between the film and the spectator, and the surrounding conditions around them. Rhetorical cannot be implied in the film text, as it comes from the moment of spectatorship. Rhetorical is belief to be an Art Machine. Through a rhetoric medium a filmmaker can convey his messages with power and clarity.
Rhetoric, on the other hand, exists for no other reason than to make specific changes in knowledge or behavior
Through the view of rhetoric, the filmmaker begins with an image, select the medium to transfer that to the audience. To feel or imagine the image build by the filmmaker properly.
Eisenstein agreed with this view but also felt the image to be something which develops almost spontaneously out of the representations which the artist is manipulating




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