Rhetoric, Inc. Ford’s Filmmaking and the Rise of Corporatism / Timothy Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Timothy (Timothy S.), 1984- author.

Series:

RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.

The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ford Motor Company.

Ford Motor Company--In motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Corporate state.

Automobile industry and trade--Social aspects.

Corporate state--United States--History.

Rhetoric--Economic aspects--United States--History.

Rhetoric.

Automobile industry and trade--Social aspects--United States--History.

Automobile industry and trade.

Industrial films--Social aspects--United States--History.

Industrial films.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.) : 52 illustrations

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Examines motion pictures produced or sponsored by Ford Motor Company from a rhetorical perspective, demonstrating how the films reveal a long-term rhetorical project that has helped embed corporations into many of the social systems guiding societies today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Spreading the industrial aesthetic in Ford's educations films

Ford's montage films and the formation of a "rhetorical economy"

Ford's cinematic production of economic space

Spectacle and spectatorship in Ford's World's Fair films

War, industrial globalization, and the managerial gaze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271088310

0271088311

9780271088297

027108829X

OCLC:

1240583142