Abstract
The documentary film is finding its way with increasing frequency into communication classrooms. Inherently rhetorical in nature, it is receiving considerable attention from rhetorical scholars, who have analyzed various documentaries from a rhetorical perspective as well as suggested several methodologies for looking at film rhetorically. This article outlines a course which makes use of documentary film in yet another way—to illustrate rhetorical theories and principles. This course focuses on six contemporary theorists— I. A. Richards, Richard Weaver, Stephen Toulmin, Chaim Perelman, Marshall McLu‐han, and Kenneth Burke. Students come to understand the ideas of these theorists via the application and analysis of documentary film.
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