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The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film edited by David Blakesley. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. 312 pp.
While The Terministk Screen, edited by David Blakesley, will inform those juggling the various models of film theory and searching for a model to contain them all, as a book for those teaching in the classroom it leaves much to the responsibility of the teacher. Those who deal with rhetoric as it manifests itself in the two-year college composition, film, or literature classroom will be particularly challenged by this book, as it deals with the intricacies of fairly dense film theory, an area sometimes better suited to upper-division or graduate-level film studies.
The framework of the book itselfthe introduction as well as the section overviews-are well-written and provide insight into the editor's schema. Beginning with a brief but thorough review of literature,...