The Presidential Sound: From Orotund to Instructional Speech, 1892–1912

Goodale, Greg

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“…Showing his alpha male persona, Peter extends his arms to embrace his audience, declaring that he will "change the world." As aggressive oratorical style is understood as a historical manifestation of dominance (Goodale, 2010;Zaeske, 2010;Sheeler & Anderson, 2014), Peter's rough, reverberatingly deep and gargling voice raises in pitch and volume during his ongoing exclamations as he touts his technological and evolutionary progress as an innovator. His delivery resembles the war rally speech pattern of other aggressive battle orations in film where male characters pace back and forth and scream for violent action against enemies (Gibson, 1995;Jackson, 2003).…”

Section: The Physicality Of Evolutionmentioning

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Competition on the Origins of Life and the Scientific Oratory Tradition: Polarizing Evolution and Its Instinctual Faith in Prometheus

Yergensen

2023

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Predating the current billionaire space race, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus explores an interplay of competing explanations of the origins of life as discoverable in the universe through space exploration. The film’s plot debates evolution versus faith as life’s origins, and demonstrates evolution as victorious over and utilizing faith. Accompanying this analysis is focus on the film’s previously released online prologue scene, a fictional TED Talk that intertwines technological advancements and religious themes that display a brutal Darwinian survival of the fittest hierarchy as the answer to life’s origins. In the age of re- emerging space exploration, Prometheus and its social media-released prologue oration demonstrate technological control over evolution and relegate faith to functioning as a survival mechanism in response to superior and hyperaggressive species. Faith’s value is in assisting humanity to continually seek transcendent answers when confronting life’s beginnings and violent endings.

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Section: The Physicality Of Evolutionmentioning

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Competition on the Origins of Life and the Scientific Oratory Tradition: Polarizing Evolution and Its Instinctual Faith in Prometheus

Yergensen

2023

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“…Sound. Goodale (2010) reminds communication scholars that sound is a central concern to the discipline. The way music sounds is central to understanding the effectiveness of the message.…”

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Rhetoric of Social Change in Documentary Film Scores

Hackley

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Documentary films tell the untold stories and tragedies of the world as well as reflect the filmmakers' ideologies. In this way, they are socially conscious media: they give light to the struggles and problems that exist in society, often giving voice to people who might otherwise be silenced. Documentary films are also rhetorically persuasive in that they help to organize public perception. Documentary scores are part of films' persuasiveness and help audiences to make sense of the documentary footage. Using a form of rhetorical analysis, this thesis aims to study documentary scores to understand how they mobilize audiences around a particular topic. The way filmmakers craft images, messages, and scores has the ability to impact and reframe public attitudes, thus serving as a powerful communicative tool for social change. Understanding the role of film in promoting social change involves uncovering how and why the content makes the viewer take action. The filmmaker uses certain techniques like close ups and panning as well as different themes that are elicited in the music and images to influence the viewer to accept particular ideologies. These techniques can then be replicated and used in future movements or projects.

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Not Quite Bleeding from the Ears: Amplifying Sonic Torture

Hill

2012

Western Journal of Communication

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The Presidential Sound: From Orotund to Instructional Speech, 1892–1912

Cited by 4 publications

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Competition on the Origins of Life and the Scientific Oratory Tradition: Polarizing Evolution and Its Instinctual Faith in Prometheus

Competition on the Origins of Life and the Scientific Oratory Tradition: Polarizing Evolution and Its Instinctual Faith in Prometheus

Rhetoric of Social Change in Documentary Film Scores

Not Quite Bleeding from the Ears: Amplifying Sonic Torture

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