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SPCM 208 Rhetoric of Film Examines the nature and communicative functions of the ideological content of narrative cinema, with emphasis on the Hollywood film; considers ideological dimensions of film as communication, explicit and implicit ideological dimensions of the Hollywood social problem film, relationship of genre and ideology, and the ideology of the institution of cinema. 3 hours.         University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Unit for Cinema Studies rleskosk@uiuc.edu 10.4.2007 rjl