Film Rhetoric: Mirror and Discourse

Author: Li Xianjie
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book possesses academic frontier significance, practical relevance, and theoretical value. The study of narrative in electronic media such as film, television, and radio has received increasing attention and research, influenced by Western structuralism and Russian formalist aesthetics and literary theory. Meanwhile, rhetorical studies have also emerged in the field of electronic media research. This work focuses on key issues in the rhetoric of cinematic imagery—specifically, rhetorical tropes of cinematic imagery. The rhetorical tropes of cinematic imagery are an important topic that has rarely been systematically and comprehensively studied. This work provides a relatively thorough, systematic, in-depth, specific, and detailed exploration of the subject. It not only theoretically organizes and elaborates on the rhetorical tropes of cinematic imagery but also emphasizes their basic forms and functional characteristics, proposing and analyzing thirteen types of cinematic imagery rhetorical tropes. The paper is divided into three parts—upper, middle, and lower—forming a complete structure with both unity and division. It covers history, theory, and practice comprehensively and is accompanied by numerous film image illustrations. These not only make the text visually engaging but also align with the essence of the films discussed as reflections, images, and visual culture, reflecting the characteristics of a picture-centric era. All these aspects demonstrate the author's sharp, innovative, thoughtful, and meticulous thinking, as well as clear, vivid, serious, and conscientious expression.