The Rhetorica Network
Rhetorica is my blog about documentary film and photography since March 2021. All posts from the previous version of Rhetorica, dating back to 2002, are available on archive.org.
About Rhetorica
Rhetorica began as a press-politics blog that grew out of a web project I began in 1998 as part of my graduate studies in rhetoric. My name is Dr. Andrew R. Cline. I am an Emeritus Professor of Media & Journalism at Missouri State University. I currently live in Aveiro, Portugal where I continue to write and do documentary film and photography projects.
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An Idea is Formed
Last I posted, I mentioned my Documentary Practicum class would be choosing an idea for their semester documentary project. And so they have: the role of the house-party scene as a steppingstone to success for a local band. My first … Continue reading
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Notes on the Trinity Edit
I have one big step left before beginning the edit of Trinity, my latest documentary project. It’s a buddy road trip story about coping in a crisis era. Call it the Crisis of 2020 as predicted by Strauss and Howe … Continue reading
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Work Continues on Back-to-the-Land Documentary
Now that I’m back from my trip to Portugal (see my personal project on becoming an expat), I’m back to work on the back-to-the-land documentary being directed by Denise Vaughn. I’m the cinematographer and doing some project consulting. Many of … Continue reading
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Flying Internationally is Hell
Here’s episode 4 of Our Expat Journey to Portugal. It’s a bit different from the first three 🙂 
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Our Expat Journey to Portugal, Episode 3
In this episode of my documentary webseries, we discover that we like far more neighborhoods than we dislike. How to choose? Stay tuned… 
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