See an expert rhetorical analysis

Here's a notice for a talk this Friday by a very distinguished speaker in rhetoric.  He's doing a contextual analysis (as best I can tell) of the horror film genre; should be fascinating!  So if you're not in my class this Friday at 3:35, consider heading on over to Willard to see what should be am insightful rhetorical analysis.

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The Department of Communication Arts and Sciences presents


Kendall R. Phillips

Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Syracuse University

President Elect, Rhetoric Society of America

 

“Cinematic Horror: Affect, Rhetoric, Politics”
 

Addressing the genre of horror from a rhetorical perspective, this paper asks, “what kind of experiences do horror films invite us to have?” Beginning with the notion that cinema is an affective site, the paper argues that these affective sites are what Foucault called "heterotopias.” Seen within this framework, the horror genre can be understood as inviting a certain kind of affective experience and in so doing opening a particular kind of political space.

3:35 P.M. February 17, 2012 

165 WILLARD BUILDING