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VISUAL RHETORIC IN THE EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY: A VISUAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF JOHN LENNON VS. BILL O' REILLY
Prepared by Johansen Quijano as a partial requirement for Dr. Yuejiao Zhang’s Visual Rhetoric course.
A Bit of Background Information September 26th, 2010 Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist Peter Alexander Shukoff Audience is of utmost importance
Questioning the Official Story Is it really just about the audience? Do the Epic Rap Battles have any
meaning to them? Do the Epic Rap Battles make any
political, social, or religious claim? If so, what is it? How do the episodes make a claim and support it?
Why This Episode? First in the series Each character clearly represents an
ideology It set the tone for the rest of the series
Segmenting the Video Section 1 – Intro
Section 2 – Lennon 1
Section 3 – O’ Reilly 1
Section 4 – Lennon 2
Section 5 – O’ Reilly 2
Section 6 – Closing
Light and the Lennon-Space
The Darkness of the O’ Reilly Void
Facial Features
Proximity to the Viewer
Frames to Keep Them Separate
The Coming Together
So Who Won?
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