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Using Documentaries/Movies to Analyze Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion Step 1. Choose a documentary or film. I have a list provided below but you may choose something else if you want but there must be an element of persuasion at play, meaning there has to be character(s) trying to convince others of something. This will be evident in most visual texts.Step 2. Introduce the film and view the film analyzing its use of rhetoric and persuasion. What is it arguing and how effective is it?Step 3. Then, complete the OPTIC graphic organizer analyzing the film or documentary for specific use of rhetorical appeals and effectiveness of persuasion.Step 4. Conclude by making a judgment about the film’s rhetorical effectiveness. This should be completed in the “Conclusion” portion of the graphic organizer.Step 5: Review your details. You should be citing evidence from the documentary or film to address its effectiveness in regards to persuasion. Your evidence should be specific and use complete sentences. You may record your responses on a sheet of notebook paper if you do not have enough room on the OPTIC graphic organizer.*Note: Most of these documentaries are available on Netflix, YouTube or Amazon Prime. Please choose one that does not require you to pay anything as I would not want you to be required to pay anything to complete this assignment. Also, please read a description of the plot and/or pay attention to the rating as some material may be a trigger or too mature in content for you and I would not want you to deal with any unnecessary stressors or feelings of uncomfortableness for completion of this assignment.Possible Documentaries:Blackfish-2013Food, Inc.-2008Forks over Knives-2011Miss Representation-2011Undefeated-2011Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood- 2008The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Do Not Need- 2004In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts- 2006Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination- 2014Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music- 2001The New Economics 101- 2013Default – The Student Loan Documentary- 2012The Diamond Empire- 2004Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds- 2014Cola Conquest 2: How Coca-Cola Took Over the World- 2008The War Around Us- 2013Unnatural Causes- 2008Blood and Oil: The Dangers & Consequences of America’s Growing Dependence on Foreign Petroleum- 2008Blind Spot: Peak Oil & The Coming Global Crisis- 2009The Next American Revolution- 2013Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority- 2013Protection: Masculinity & Condom Use in Sub-Saharan Africa- 2013No Logo: Brands Globalization Resistance- 2003Advertising and The End of The World- 1997The Billionaires’ Tea Party: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution- 2011Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs- 2006Behind the Screens: Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial- 2000Shop ‘Til You Drop – The Crisis of Consumerism- 2010#ReGENERATION- 2012Plunder – The Crime of our Time- 2010Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of the American Empire- 2006People Like Us – Social Class in America- 1999Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power- 2001Fictional Films:Thank you for Smoking-2005The Grapes of Wrath- 1940Killer of Sheep- 1977Coal Miner’s Daughter- 1980Trading Places- 1983Good Will Hunting- 1997Titanic- 1997The Pursuit of Happiness- 2006Slumdog Millionaire- 2008Precious- 2009Wall Street- 1987Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps- 2010Wolf of Wall Street- 2013Working Girl- 1988Capitalism: A Love Story- 2009New Jack City- 1991Do the Right Thing- 1989Bamboozled- 2000Dead Presidents- 1995The Women of Brewster Place- 1989Beasts of the Southern Wild- 2012Imitation of Life- 1959American Gangster- 200712 Years a Slave- 2013Set It Off- 1996A Raisin in the Sun- 1959Coming to America- 1988Erin Brockovich- 2000 ................
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