CMN 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Visual Rhetoric, Mecha, Jacob Riis
20 Oct 2017
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Copy model of visual perception and representation. Images reflect objects in the real world. Images are not mirrors or windows but symbolic artifacts constructed from the conventions of a particular culture (l. scott, need for theory of visual rhetoric, 1994) Film or television program that treats events or issues in a factual manner. Exposition = focus is on representing reality as as accurately as possible. Persuasion = focus is on trigger action on part of audience or changing the way audience thinks, feels, acts. Realism signifies new ways of seeing not only in art and literature but in virtually every facet of [modern] social life from law enforcement to pedagogy and medicine to the emergent social sciences. R. twigg (1992) the performative dimension of surveillance: jacob riis" how the other half lives, . Realism: representation of reality as accurately as possible. Positivism: notion that knowledge is produced through observation (audience as virtual witness of experiments)
