Thomas W Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4928973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Landmark Essays
Contents: T.W. Benson, Introduction: Beacons and Boundary-Markers: Landmarks in Rhetorical Criticism (1993). H.A. Wichelns, The Literary Criticism of Oratory (1925). K. Burke, The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle (1939). M.H. Nichols, Lincoln's First Inaugural (1954). C.C. Arnold, Lord Thomas Erskine: Modern Advocate (1958). H.G. Stelzner, War Message, December 8, 1941: An Approach to Language (1966). R.L. Scott, A Rhetoric of Facts: Arthur Larson's S…
Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism
Readings in Classical Rhetoric
New Political Journalism
New Political Journalism Thomas W. Benson Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House. New York: Random House, 1992. Richard Ben Cramer’s stated aim is to write an account of the 1988 presidential campaign that answers the questions of What kind of life would lead a man (in my lifetime all have been men) to think he ought to be President. . . . What in their backgrounds could give them that huge ambition, that kind of motor, th…
Permanence and Change in the Global Village
Postmodern Culture - Volume 5, Number 1, September 1994
Communication and the circle of learning
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS. Erik Barnouw, editor in chief. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Published jointly with the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania; pp. 1 (Acti‐Deco): xxv+462; 2 (Demo‐Mead): 506; 3 (Mean‐Rumo): 490; 4 (Sapi‐Zwor): 455. $300
American Rhetoric
Journal Article American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism. Ed. by Thomas W. Benson. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. xii + 427 pp. $34.95.) Get access Edwin Fussell Edwin Fussell University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1035–1036, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078809 Published: 01 December 1991
Respecting the reader
A CERTAIN TENDENCY OF THE HOLLYWOOD CINEMA, 1930–1980. By Robert B. Ray. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. pp. x + 411. $45.00; paper $14.50. CINEMA AND SENTIMENT. By Charles Affron. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. pp. xi + 202. $20.00. SPEAKING OF SOAP OPERAS. By Robert C. Allen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. pp. x + 245. $27.50; paper $9.95
The rhetorical structure of Frederick Wiseman's primate
Frederick Wiseman's film Primate is a rhetorical documentary about the implications of human curiosity in an institutional setting—a primate research center. Wiseman uses comparison, sequence, and sound‐image relations to employ and transcend filmic and rhetorical genres, enabling him to engage the viewer in a reflective exploration of human being. Primate demonstrates how facts can be recontextualized into complex meanings, and how audiences can…
The City
This article is a case study of Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke's classic documentary, The City. The critical and aesthetic principles of Sergei Eisenstein and Rudolph Arnheim demonstrate how rhythm functions formally and rhetorically to create cinematic knowledge
Another shooting in cowtown
In November 1979 the author participated in the production of a series of political television commercials for a Congressional candidate somewhere in the American Southwest. This report describes his observations. Most of the names have been changed
The rhetorical structure of Frederick Wiseman's high school
Frederick Wiseman's film High School is a rhetorical documentary about the exercise of power in an institutional setting. Wiseman uses selection, framing, and editing within and between sequences to depict the high school as a place where power is exercised through the double bind, reducing students to conformity, boredom, apathy, and empty gestures of rebellion. The double bind is most forcefully expressed in the invisible network of contradicto…
Television as politics
Books reviewed THE BBC: PUBLIC INSTITUTION AND PRIVATE WORLD. By Tom Burns. London: Macmillan, 1977; pp. xviii+313. $19.50. MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY. Edited by James Curran, Michael Gurevitch, and Janet Woollacott. London: Edward Arnold in association with The Open University Press, 1977; pp. 478. £9.95. READING TELEVISION. By John Fiske and John Hartley. London: Methuen, 1978; pp. 223. £2.50. FACING THE NATION: TELEVISION AND POLITICS 1936…
Joe
Rhetoric and autobiography
Rhetoric is a mode of being, of knowing, and of doing. An examination of The Autobiography of Malcolm X shows these modes in a successful balance. Malcolm's rhetorical problem was to present a life of changes as a coherent pattern. Plausible readings of the Autobiography can make it seem to depict a hustler or fanatic on the one hand, or a mythically detached existential hero on the other. The acceptance of either reading would render the book a …
Ideals, superlatives, and the decline of hypocrisy
THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD. By George Kennedy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972; pp. xvi+658. $18.50; paper $9.75
The City
This article is a case study of Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke's classic documentary, The City. The critical and aesthetic principles of Sergei Eisenstein and Rudolph Arnheim demonstrate how rhythm functions formally and rhetorically to create cinematic knowledge
The rhetorical structure of Frederick Wiseman's high school
Frederick Wiseman's film High School is a rhetorical documentary about the exercise of power in an institutional setting. Wiseman uses selection, framing, and editing within and between sequences to depict the high school as a place where power is exercised through the double bind, reducing students to conformity, boredom, apathy, and empty gestures of rebellion. The double bind is most forcefully expressed in the invisible network of contradicto…
Rhetoric and autobiography
Rhetoric is a mode of being, of knowing, and of doing. An examination of The Autobiography of Malcolm X shows these modes in a successful balance. Malcolm's rhetorical problem was to present a life of changes as a coherent pattern. Plausible readings of the Autobiography can make it seem to depict a hustler or fanatic on the one hand, or a mythically detached existential hero on the other. The acceptance of either reading would render the book a …
Ideals, superlatives, and the decline of hypocrisy
THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD. By George Kennedy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972; pp. xvi+658. $18.50; paper $9.75
The rhetorical structure of Frederick Wiseman's primate
Frederick Wiseman's film Primate is a rhetorical documentary about the implications of human curiosity in an institutional setting—a primate research center. Wiseman uses comparison, sequence, and sound‐image relations to employ and transcend filmic and rhetorical genres, enabling him to engage the viewer in a reflective exploration of human being. Primate demonstrates how facts can be recontextualized into complex meanings, and how audiences can…
Another shooting in cowtown
In November 1979 the author participated in the production of a series of political television commercials for a Congressional candidate somewhere in the American Southwest. This report describes his observations. Most of the names have been changed
Ideals, superlatives, and the decline of hypocrisy
THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD. By George Kennedy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972; pp. xvi+658. $18.50; paper $9.75
Joe
Rhetoric and autobiography
Rhetoric is a mode of being, of knowing, and of doing. An examination of The Autobiography of Malcolm X shows these modes in a successful balance. Malcolm's rhetorical problem was to present a life of changes as a coherent pattern. Plausible readings of the Autobiography can make it seem to depict a hustler or fanatic on the one hand, or a mythically detached existential hero on the other. The acceptance of either reading would render the book a …
Television as politics
Books reviewed THE BBC: PUBLIC INSTITUTION AND PRIVATE WORLD. By Tom Burns. London: Macmillan, 1977; pp. xviii+313. $19.50. MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY. Edited by James Curran, Michael Gurevitch, and Janet Woollacott. London: Edward Arnold in association with The Open University Press, 1977; pp. 478. £9.95. READING TELEVISION. By John Fiske and John Hartley. London: Methuen, 1978; pp. 223. £2.50. FACING THE NATION: TELEVISION AND POLITICS 1936…
The rhetorical structure of Frederick Wiseman's high school
Frederick Wiseman's film High School is a rhetorical documentary about the exercise of power in an institutional setting. Wiseman uses selection, framing, and editing within and between sequences to depict the high school as a place where power is exercised through the double bind, reducing students to conformity, boredom, apathy, and empty gestures of rebellion. The double bind is most forcefully expressed in the invisible network of contradicto…
The City
This article is a case study of Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke's classic documentary, The City. The critical and aesthetic principles of Sergei Eisenstein and Rudolph Arnheim demonstrate how rhythm functions formally and rhetorically to create cinematic knowledge
Another shooting in cowtown
In November 1979 the author participated in the production of a series of political television commercials for a Congressional candidate somewhere in the American Southwest. This report describes his observations. Most of the names have been changed
The rhetorical structure of Frederick Wiseman's primate
Frederick Wiseman's film Primate is a rhetorical documentary about the implications of human curiosity in an institutional setting—a primate research center. Wiseman uses comparison, sequence, and sound‐image relations to employ and transcend filmic and rhetorical genres, enabling him to engage the viewer in a reflective exploration of human being. Primate demonstrates how facts can be recontextualized into complex meanings, and how audiences can…
Respecting the reader
A CERTAIN TENDENCY OF THE HOLLYWOOD CINEMA, 1930–1980. By Robert B. Ray. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. pp. x + 411. $45.00; paper $14.50. CINEMA AND SENTIMENT. By Charles Affron. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. pp. xi + 202. $20.00. SPEAKING OF SOAP OPERAS. By Robert C. Allen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. pp. x + 245. $27.50; paper $9.95
American Rhetoric
Journal Article American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism. Ed. by Thomas W. Benson. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. xii + 427 pp. $34.95.) Get access Edwin Fussell Edwin Fussell University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1035–1036, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078809 Published: 01 December 1991
Communication and the circle of learning
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS. Erik Barnouw, editor in chief. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Published jointly with the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania; pp. 1 (Acti‐Deco): xxv+462; 2 (Demo‐Mead): 506; 3 (Mean‐Rumo): 490; 4 (Sapi‐Zwor): 455. $300
Permanence and Change in the Global Village
Postmodern Culture - Volume 5, Number 1, September 1994
New Political Journalism
New Political Journalism Thomas W. Benson Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House. New York: Random House, 1992. Richard Ben Cramer’s stated aim is to write an account of the 1988 presidential campaign that answers the questions of What kind of life would lead a man (in my lifetime all have been men) to think he ought to be President. . . . What in their backgrounds could give them that huge ambition, that kind of motor, th…
Readings in Classical Rhetoric
Landmark Essays
Contents: T.W. Benson, Introduction: Beacons and Boundary-Markers: Landmarks in Rhetorical Criticism (1993). H.A. Wichelns, The Literary Criticism of Oratory (1925). K. Burke, The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle (1939). M.H. Nichols, Lincoln's First Inaugural (1954). C.C. Arnold, Lord Thomas Erskine: Modern Advocate (1958). H.G. Stelzner, War Message, December 8, 1941: An Approach to Language (1966). R.L. Scott, A Rhetoric of Facts: Arthur Larson's S…
Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism
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