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Teaching Rhetoric Through Documentaries

This approach explores the intersection of rhetoric and documentaries, providing a modern method for teaching classical rhetorical principles. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the rhetorical situation, including the roles of the writer, speaker, text, and audience. Documentaries serve as a motivating tool for students, allowing them to analyze familiar visual texts, engage with various viewpoints, and develop critical thinking skills. By examining films like "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Food Inc.," students learn to create their own documentaries while addressing pertinent issues.

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Teaching Rhetoric Through Documentaries

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  1. Teaching Rhetoric Through Documentaries Kellie Hannum Boise State University

  2. A General Understanding of Rhetoric • Modern references often pejorative • Speaking without really saying anything of value • Aristotle- the art of public speaking • Modern Education- to blend the classical understanding which valued the moral character of the speaker with the more modern understanding of the relationship between the speaker and the audience and the substance of the information or argument

  3. The Rhetorical Situation Writer= rhetor speaker Text= subject Reader= audience

  4. Learning the functions of argumentation • identify issues, • weigh other viewpoints, • form and defend their own opinions and • prepare rebuttals for possible counter-arguments

  5. Documentaries as Rhetoric FILM DIRECTOR SUBJECT MATTER AUDIENCE “alternative visual rhetoric defined here as the use of media such as film, television and hypertext” (Gray-Rosendale,168).

  6. Documentaries as Rhetoric • allow students to • act as the audience • participate in the creation of rhetoric through media that are more familiar, accessible and interesting to them • analyze text, written and visual • examine the production of that text • understand and evaluate subjectivity

  7. Documentaries as Motivation • Critical Media Literacy: enhance critical thinking skills and prepare for a future of increased media influence • Goal: engage students in reading, viewing and listening in order to become more adept at exploring the multiple views different texts offer and then make sound judgments for themselves • Combines a text format they are comfortable with and an analysis task they are being asked to learn

  8. Let’s Try It • An Inconvenient Truth • An Inconvenient Truth; trailer site:youtube.com • Food Inc. • Food Inc; trailer site:youtube.com

  9. Looking Forward… • Groups choose a documentary to analyze and present • Examine published reviews • Work toward groups writing, creating, filming, and editing their own documentary about an issue that affects them directly

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