English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

Tuesday, March 27

• George, Diana. "From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing." CCC. 54.1 (2002): 11-39. A PDF copy and handout have been published here.
• Group Project: Oral Progress Report (1 or 2 groups can volunteer to present today).

Thursday, March 29

• Film: Vertigo (first half). Viewed in class.
• Reading: Blakesley, "Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock's Vertigo" (see attachment below)
• Reading: Modleski, "Femininity By Design: Vertigo" (see attachment below)
• Reading: Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (see attachment below)
• Due date extended to April 10!
  
  Research Project Step 4 due: The Exploration Project will be the stage when you foster intellectual "turbulence" by investigating the many facets and problems of your subject, asking a number of questions and offering a number of answers for each question, without feeling the need to present these questions and answers in a tightly organized essay. You may compose your Exploration Project as an exploratory essay or by answering more directly a set of questions that will be provided. You'll be given additional guidelines for this step. (Suggested length: 1,500 words)