Rhetorical Analysis: The Disaster Artist
RA Working Bibliography
McGraw, A. Peter and Warren, Caleb. “Benign Violations: Making Immoral Behavior Funny.” Psychological Science, vol. 21, no. 8, 29 June. 2010, pp. 1141-1149. SAGE Journals, doi: 10.1177/0956797610376073.
In The Disaster Artist, Tommy Wiseau was behaving normally as he would do, but the way the anecdote is told makes his overall behavior considered funny. This article is directly related to Wiseau’s character as it gives an idea why the audience enjoys the story.
Raihani, Nichola J. and Bshary, Redouan. “Why humans might help strangers.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 9, 20 February. 2015, pp. 39. Frontiers Media S.A., doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00039.
This article and some stories in The Disaster Artist imply …show more content…
The Disaster Artist. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.
The main reading of the rhetorical analysis assignment. My essay is built on top of how Greg Sestero portrays Tommy Wiseau as a man of weirdness and shows that it reflects the society attitude towards a person’s strangeness.
Twenge, Jean M., Sherman, Ryne A., and Lyubomirsky, Sonja. “More Happiness for Young People and Less for Mature Adults: Time Period Differences in Subjective Well-Being in the United States, 1972–2014.” Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 7, no. 2, 5 November. 2015, pp. 131-141. SAGE Journals, doi: 10.1177/1948550615602933.
In The Disaster Artist, one of the points that made Tommy Wiseau easily remembered by the readers is his childhood dreams. This research suggests that many adults – not only Wiseau – do not have their life goal completed as well.
Artifacts
Redeeming Average Homeboy
This exercise consists of three parts: select, remix, and reflect. At first it seems like a funny discussion that makes us remix the lyrics in a more appropriate way. However, every progress that we made throughout the exercise requires a logical choice. When it comes to the reflection part, we need to explain all the ideas behind our decisions. I spent some time on it and got a useful feedback from the instructor. In order to complete this assignment, one of the skills required is to slow down and explain clearly our assumptions and our
McGraw, A. Peter and Warren, Caleb. “Benign Violations: Making Immoral Behavior Funny.” Psychological Science, vol. 21, no. 8, 29 June. 2010, pp. 1141-1149. SAGE Journals, doi: 10.1177/0956797610376073.
In The Disaster Artist, Tommy Wiseau was behaving normally as he would do, but the way the anecdote is told makes his overall behavior considered funny. This article is directly related to Wiseau’s character as it gives an idea why the audience enjoys the story.
Raihani, Nichola J. and Bshary, Redouan. “Why humans might help strangers.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 9, 20 February. 2015, pp. 39. Frontiers Media S.A., doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00039.
This article and some stories in The Disaster Artist imply …show more content…
The Disaster Artist. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.
The main reading of the rhetorical analysis assignment. My essay is built on top of how Greg Sestero portrays Tommy Wiseau as a man of weirdness and shows that it reflects the society attitude towards a person’s strangeness.
Twenge, Jean M., Sherman, Ryne A., and Lyubomirsky, Sonja. “More Happiness for Young People and Less for Mature Adults: Time Period Differences in Subjective Well-Being in the United States, 1972–2014.” Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 7, no. 2, 5 November. 2015, pp. 131-141. SAGE Journals, doi: 10.1177/1948550615602933.
In The Disaster Artist, one of the points that made Tommy Wiseau easily remembered by the readers is his childhood dreams. This research suggests that many adults – not only Wiseau – do not have their life goal completed as well.
Artifacts
Redeeming Average Homeboy
This exercise consists of three parts: select, remix, and reflect. At first it seems like a funny discussion that makes us remix the lyrics in a more appropriate way. However, every progress that we made throughout the exercise requires a logical choice. When it comes to the reflection part, we need to explain all the ideas behind our decisions. I spent some time on it and got a useful feedback from the instructor. In order to complete this assignment, one of the skills required is to slow down and explain clearly our assumptions and our