Category: English 350: Visible Rhetoric
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Discovering bell hooks
I had one of those “Aha” moments when I sat down to watch this week’s assigned youTube videos. All I knew about bell hooks before this week was that she was a feminist author/scholar. After watching the “On Cultural Criticism” pieces, I recognized that I was actually familiar with parts…
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Response to Klein, Holland, Sullivan
Klein, “Truth in Advertising” 1. Klein sarcastically responds in the article, to companies’ apparent brand identities–that Nike, for instance, is not selling shoes, but instead communicating “notions of transcendence.” Take a look at the front/main pages of these three web sites: http://www.hummer.com http://www.agentprovocateur.com http://www.microsoft.com 2. What is the outer truth…
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Response to Practices of Looking Chapter 6: “Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire”
1. What are some of the historical and cultural reasons why consumer culture has appeared and proliferated? The use of advertising – which almost always incorporates visible rhetoric – has been a staple in the spread of consumerism. “Increased industrialization and bureaucratization in the late nineteenth century meant a decrease…
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An Array of Colors
Thursday’s presentations were very enjoyable (thanks for the pizza, Angela!) and also quite thought-provoking. As noted in a previous blog entry, the color purple has polarizing effects. My research seemed to indicate it was unique in this aspect, but as the presentations continued I realized that most colors have the…
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Media – inside and outside
As a working journalist, I engaged Sturken and Cartwright’s analyses of American media from multiple viewpoints. First, I followed their commentary as an American consumer of media — and I felt their views were spot-on. The sheer magnitude of media messages we take in each day is overwhelming. It’s no…
Erin Anne Clark 