The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary

Abstract

ABC, 196 Abu Ghraib torture scandal, 102n. 41, 103n. 48 Ackerman, Seth, 179–80 Adams, John Quincy, 117 advertising, 46–47, 79–80, 96n. 2, 176 AE Harris Trust, 177 Afghanistan, 29 agitprop, 8, 55, 185 Aikman, David, 113, 120, 123, 126n. 5 Ailes, Roger, 179, 190 Alien and Sedition acts (1798), 24 Allen, Herbert A., 177–78 American Empire, 164, 166 American Renaissance Film Festival, 125n. 4 anecdotes, representative, in GWB, 113–14, 116 anti-corporate exposes, 19 antiwar movement, 78, 86–87, 90, 94 Aristotelian rhetoric, 134, 136 audiences: analysis of, 16–17; Fox effect on, 195–96; misperceptions by, 196; partisan documentaries and, 156–58; potential for mobilization of, 132; and rhetorical potential of documentary film, 137; roles of, 135–36; skepticism of, encouraged in Outfoxed, 190 authenticity, 26–28, 44–45, 116–17, 133–34 avant-garde, 7–8