Background
Blakesley, David Edward was born on February 15, 1960 in Hemet, California, United States. Son of Merrill Kimble and Pearl Beatrice Blakesley.
( The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film...)
The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film examines the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory. Rhetorical approaches to film studies have been widely practiced, but rarely discussed until now. Taking on such issues as Hollywood blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics, editor David Blakesley presents fifteen critical essays that examine rhetoric’s role in such popular films as The Fifth Element, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Usual Suspects, Deliverance, The English Patient, Pulp Fiction, The Music Man, Copycat, Hoop Dreams, and A Time to Kill. Aided by sixteen illustrations, these insightful essays consider films rhetorically, as ways of seeing and not seeing, as acts that dramatize how people use language and images to tell stories and foster identification. Contributors include David Blakesley, Alan Nadel, Ann Chisholm, Martin J. Medhurst, Byron Hawk, Ekaterina V. Haskins, James Roberts, Thomas W. Benson, Philip L. Simpson, Davis W. Houck, Caroline J.S. Picart, Friedemann Weidauer, Bruce Krajewski, Harriet Malinowitz, Granetta L. Richardson, and Kelly Ritter.
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Blakesley, David Edward was born on February 15, 1960 in Hemet, California, United States. Son of Merrill Kimble and Pearl Beatrice Blakesley.
Bachelor in English, San Diego State University, 1983. Master of Arts in English, San Diego State University, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric Linguistics and Literature, University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1990.
Assistant professor English Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1989—1997, associate professor English, 1997—2000, Purdue University, Würzburg.Lafayette, Indiana, 2000—2006, professor English, since 2006. Founder, president Parlor Press, LLC, since 2002. Director professional writing department English Purdue University, since 2000.
( The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film...)
Commissioner Tippecanoe County Human Relations Commission, Lafayette, since 2004. Member of National Council Teachers English, Council Writing Program Administrators, Kenneth Burke Society (web developer, conference planner since 2002, Distinguished Service award 2005).
Married Julie Lynn Reiske, December 30, 1992. Children: Meagan Belle, Matthew Michael.