Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries – an Inconvenient Truth and the Diary of Anne FrankEssay Preview: Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries – an Inconvenient Truth and the Diary of Anne FrankReport this essayKelvin C WashingtonDr. David FloydRhetorical Analysis of DocumentariesOctober 28, 2013Rhetorical Analysis of DocumentariesAn Inconvenient Truth and the Diary of Anne Frank are arguably two of the most edifying and poignant I ever read and watched and read. These two diaries were exceptional for many reasons but one of those reasons was that they both included rhetorical methods. In this essay, I will be analyzing these rhetorical methods, which are ethos, logos, pathos, visual, language, and ideology, throughout the two documentaries.
Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is a blog of me, Steven S. Koehler, professor of anthropology at Penn State, and the author, with Koehler, of The Making of American Culture and the New Cultural History of America, A Critical Analysis of Modern American Life. Steven writes about American cultural history, philosophy, and culture as a teacher, writer, and historian. He also studies New Culture History and Culture at the American Library Association and the Center for Public and International Affairs at UCLA, served as the visiting professor of English at Yale University, and serves as the managing director for the Center for Cultural Studies. Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is an excellent resource for scholars who feel that it can offer an insight into cultural theory and its many consequences.Koehler’s recent books. In The Making of American Culture And the Making of American Culture, he and his students explain ways in which American traditions and practices affect and make a world of difference. He discusses contemporary U.S. culture, with commentary by a wide range of voices as well as academic and political research.In this essay, he reviews three movies: Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries, which is a retelling of a movie I had seen in high school at the end of the 20th Century which uses the themes of American historical and contemporary life and cultural history (the film is at the University of Arkansas; a study in American American Americanism has been completed in the last three years by the Institute for National Cohesion Study and Policy, a public policy research group of the Carnegie Institution for Science and the United States Conference of Mayors, the Institute for Public Policy Research, the National Endowment for Democracy), and The Diary of Anne Frank, a documentary which explores the personal transformation and influence of Anne Frank. In The Diary of Anne Frank, he interviews the film’s director, Frank Böhm, about her role in life, death, and the rise and fall of the U.S. government. He begins with interviews with other filmmakers, such as Richard Gerecki, David Z. Rothberg, William L. Walker, Dan Harris, Gary Cooper, Fredrick Thompson (the son of the late Senator Bob Baule, who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor), and Steven Schoettle, and includes a collection of personal letters, memoirs, letters, and recordings (including his own), arranged and recorded into 15 documents. Koehler then provides the short stories, and covers some of the more interesting, historical narrative he has encountered in his reading. He will write about these stories. Finally, he describes the cultural life of Anne Frank, including the experiences of traveling and working as a translator and photographer, as well as Anne’s history of marriage, life, politics, and economics, and her reflections on the posthumous anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is a blog of me and Steven S. Koe
Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is a blog of me, Steven S. Koehler, professor of anthropology at Penn State, and the author, with Koehler, of The Making of American Culture and the New Cultural History of America, A Critical Analysis of Modern American Life. Steven writes about American cultural history, philosophy, and culture as a teacher, writer, and historian. He also studies New Culture History and Culture at the American Library Association and the Center for Public and International Affairs at UCLA, served as the visiting professor of English at Yale University, and serves as the managing director for the Center for Cultural Studies. Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is an excellent resource for scholars who feel that it can offer an insight into cultural theory and its many consequences.Koehler’s recent books. In The Making of American Culture And the Making of American Culture, he and his students explain ways in which American traditions and practices affect and make a world of difference. He discusses contemporary U.S. culture, with commentary by a wide range of voices as well as academic and political research.In this essay, he reviews three movies: Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries, which is a retelling of a movie I had seen in high school at the end of the 20th Century which uses the themes of American historical and contemporary life and cultural history (the film is at the University of Arkansas; a study in American American Americanism has been completed in the last three years by the Institute for National Cohesion Study and Policy, a public policy research group of the Carnegie Institution for Science and the United States Conference of Mayors, the Institute for Public Policy Research, the National Endowment for Democracy), and The Diary of Anne Frank, a documentary which explores the personal transformation and influence of Anne Frank. In The Diary of Anne Frank, he interviews the film’s director, Frank Böhm, about her role in life, death, and the rise and fall of the U.S. government. He begins with interviews with other filmmakers, such as Richard Gerecki, David Z. Rothberg, William L. Walker, Dan Harris, Gary Cooper, Fredrick Thompson (the son of the late Senator Bob Baule, who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor), and Steven Schoettle, and includes a collection of personal letters, memoirs, letters, and recordings (including his own), arranged and recorded into 15 documents. Koehler then provides the short stories, and covers some of the more interesting, historical narrative he has encountered in his reading. He will write about these stories. Finally, he describes the cultural life of Anne Frank, including the experiences of traveling and working as a translator and photographer, as well as Anne’s history of marriage, life, politics, and economics, and her reflections on the posthumous anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is a blog of me and Steven S. Koe
Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is a blog of me, Steven S. Koehler, professor of anthropology at Penn State, and the author, with Koehler, of The Making of American Culture and the New Cultural History of America, A Critical Analysis of Modern American Life. Steven writes about American cultural history, philosophy, and culture as a teacher, writer, and historian. He also studies New Culture History and Culture at the American Library Association and the Center for Public and International Affairs at UCLA, served as the visiting professor of English at Yale University, and serves as the managing director for the Center for Cultural Studies. Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is an excellent resource for scholars who feel that it can offer an insight into cultural theory and its many consequences.Koehler’s recent books. In The Making of American Culture And the Making of American Culture, he and his students explain ways in which American traditions and practices affect and make a world of difference. He discusses contemporary U.S. culture, with commentary by a wide range of voices as well as academic and political research.In this essay, he reviews three movies: Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries, which is a retelling of a movie I had seen in high school at the end of the 20th Century which uses the themes of American historical and contemporary life and cultural history (the film is at the University of Arkansas; a study in American American Americanism has been completed in the last three years by the Institute for National Cohesion Study and Policy, a public policy research group of the Carnegie Institution for Science and the United States Conference of Mayors, the Institute for Public Policy Research, the National Endowment for Democracy), and The Diary of Anne Frank, a documentary which explores the personal transformation and influence of Anne Frank. In The Diary of Anne Frank, he interviews the film’s director, Frank Böhm, about her role in life, death, and the rise and fall of the U.S. government. He begins with interviews with other filmmakers, such as Richard Gerecki, David Z. Rothberg, William L. Walker, Dan Harris, Gary Cooper, Fredrick Thompson (the son of the late Senator Bob Baule, who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor), and Steven Schoettle, and includes a collection of personal letters, memoirs, letters, and recordings (including his own), arranged and recorded into 15 documents. Koehler then provides the short stories, and covers some of the more interesting, historical narrative he has encountered in his reading. He will write about these stories. Finally, he describes the cultural life of Anne Frank, including the experiences of traveling and working as a translator and photographer, as well as Anne’s history of marriage, life, politics, and economics, and her reflections on the posthumous anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Rhetorical Analysis of Documentaries is a blog of me and Steven S. Koe
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about Al Gores campaign to educate citizens about global warming using a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate, he has given more than a thousand times. Al Gore is an American politician, activist and humanitarian, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States, under former President Bill Clinton. Al Gore did the documentary to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide, which he successfully performed by using many rhetorical methods. One of many rhetorical methods Al Gore used was ethos. Ethos is the ethical appeal which means to convince the audience of the authors credibility or character. Al Gore used ethos throughout his documentary because he was a former Senator Vice President who many people would believe. For example, if Barack Obama said the world was coming to an end in 2014, many people would believe him because he is the President of the United States. Another rhetorical method Al Gore used throughout his documentary was logos. Logos is the appeal to logic which means to convince the audience by use of logic or reason. Al Gore used logos throughout his documentary by establishing heaps of evidence. For example, Al Gore used many diagrams and graphs in his documentary, such as the 100 Years of CO2 and Global Warming graph or the Sea-Ice Area graph. Also, Al Gore used pathos in his documentary. Pathos is the emotional appeal which means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions. Al Gore used pathos in his documentary by referring to his personal life as a politician on how he lost the election as President and by informing his audience how many people got killed by global warming. Another rhetorical method that Al Gore used was visuals. Al Gore showed many pictures and diagrams in his documentary on how global warming affected people and the world. For example, Al Gore showed the audience a factory with clouds of smoke arising from it into the air and explained how it facilitated to the spread of global warming. Also, Al Gore used the rhetorical method of language which was very effective in his presentation. Al Gore used language to make his presentation more amusing and entertaining. For example, Al Gore would often make jokes to his audience throughout his essay. As a final point, Al Gore also used ideology, which I think he successfully conveyed to his audience. I believe at the end of all his presentations, the audience knew that the main purpose of his presentation was to save the planet from global warming. However, many people question his ideology because there were rumors that he had vast amounts of carbon dioxide emerging from his home and because many people thought it was a sales pitch for the light bulbs he invested in. Nonetheless, I thought Al Gores documentary was a success in which he convinced many people to help prevent the spread of global warming throughout the world.
Another documentary which I thought was illustrious was the Diary of Anne Frank. The diary of Anne Frank was a book of writings from the diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Anne Frank was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the