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Cindy_Sherman_The_Rhetoric_Of_Writing_Wi.Pdf, Barry J. Mauer
Cindy_Sherman_The_Rhetoric_Of_Writing_Wi.Pdf, Barry J. Mauer
Barry Mauer
My dissertation proposes an arts model of humanities learning for a computerized networked writing environment. Through case studies of Picasso's cubist paintings, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, and the Hollywood star system, I discuss the invention of a new rhetoric for media practices within the institutional frames of art and entertainment. My goal is to develop a rhetoric for hypermedia practices within education. As a work of heuretics, which uses the logic of invention rather than interpretation, my dissertation explores art, theory and criticism as resources for a hybrid genre of writing within electronic media. In this genre, students …