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Michael Moore and the rhetoric of documentary / Edited by Thomas W. Benson and Brian J. Snee. - vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-219) and index.

Michael Moore and the rhetoric of documentary: art, argument, affect 1 / Thomas W. Benson and Brian J. Snee -- Laughing through our tears: rhetorical tensions in Roger & me / Jennifer L. Borda -- The big one that got away / Christine Harold -- The many moods of Michael Moore: aesthetics and affect in Bowling for Columbine / Brian L. Ott and Susan A. Sci -- The conversion of Lila Lipscomb in Fahrenheit 9/11 / Thomas Rosteck and Thomas S. Frentz -- The phenomenal text of Michael Moore's Sicko / Edward Schiappa, Daniel Ladislau Horvath, and Peter B. Gregg -- The ghosts of Michael Moore's future-Past: or, the many failures of Slacker uprising / Davis W. Houck and Joseph Delbert Davenport -- "I'm sorry to see it go": nostalgic rhetoric in Michael Moore's Capitalism: a love story / Kendall R. Phillips.

ISBN: 9780809334070 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0809334070 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2014034578

Subjects--Personal Names:
Moore, Michael, 1954 April 23- --Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Documentary films--Political aspects--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

LC Class. No.: PN1998.3.M665 / M525 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4302/33092