VISUAL RHETORIC IN THE EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY: A VISUAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF JOHN LENNON VS. BILL O' REILLY

Prepared by Johansen Quijano as a partial requirement for Dr. Yuejiao Zhang’s Visual Rhetoric course.

A Bit of Background Information September 26th, 2010 Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist Peter Alexander Shukoff Audience is of utmost importance

Questioning the Official Story Is it really just about the audience? Do the Epic Rap Battles have any

meaning to them? Do the Epic Rap Battles make any

political, social, or religious claim? If so, what is it? How do the episodes make a claim and support it?

Why This Episode? First in the series Each character clearly represents an

ideology It set the tone for the rest of the series

Segmenting the Video Section 1 – Intro

Section 2 – Lennon 1

Section 3 – O’ Reilly 1

Section 4 – Lennon 2

Section 5 – O’ Reilly 2

Section 6 – Closing

Light and the Lennon-Space

The Darkness of the O’ Reilly Void

Facial Features

Proximity to the Viewer

Frames to Keep Them Separate

The Coming Together

So Who Won?

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