David Blakesley is an associate professor of English and director of professional writing at Purdue University. He is the author of The Elements of Dramatism, the coeditor of The Writing Instructor, the founder and moderator of the Kenneth Burke Discussion List and the Virtual Burkeian Parlor, and the editor of the Southern Illinois University Press series Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory.
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"The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film offers readers who have interests or specialities in rhetorical analysis a point of entry into contemporary cinema as it frames issues of style, representation, history, and culture. Although the literature on cinema is vast, relatively few books have adopted an explicitly rhetorical emphasis. Thus, this volume fills a long-neglected gap in the scholarly literature on film."-Stephen Prince, author of Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film