2003 issue of LORE Journal presented by the Rhetoric and Writing Department of San Diego State University
Although the medium of film, by virtue of its photographic process, is image- dominated, some of its finest efforts have been in re-presenting word-centric tales. The text—appealing to the intellect—is refashioned/reinvented into a medium ap- pealing to the senses of sight and hearing, through the personal vision of an au- tuer/director who adapts material from […]
Although the medium of film, by virtue of its photographic process, is image- dominated, some of its finest efforts have been in re-presenting word-centric tales. The text—appealing to the intellect—is refashioned/reinvented into a medium ap- pealing to the senses of sight and hearing, through the personal vision of an au- tuer/director who adapts material from […]
Leisure Time As bombs drop and destroy cities overseas, memories of children, landscapes of lives— I am home with a cold, nursing seasonal wounds. For someone somewhere war is a reality and this, an unreal dream: the quiet rasp of a heater, news of other nations nothing more than a background noise. After Effect […]
These would be the successive phases of the image:  it is the reflection of a basic reality  it masks and perverts a basic reality  it masks the absence of a basic reality  it bears no relations to any reality whatever: it is its own pure simulacrum. (Baudrillard 256) After taking the Lion King Tram from […]
Why can’t the heterogeneous West create its own images of splendor and desire without reproducing tired stereotypes of a lush Orient that never existed anywhere but in the desire-drenched recesses of their collective minds? (Susana Loza 166) In 1979 Edward Said published his brilliant and still highly controversial work, Orientalism. In this book he proposes the following […]
In a multicultural, multidisciplinary world, where humankind’s common ground for communication is in the unspoken language of the heart, a leadership model of mindfulness of reciprocity empowers the literary professions as authoritative in the arts bound together by language. Louis Montrose, in his essay “New Historicisms,†challenges us to “resist the reduc- tive tendency to […]