Greyson, John R.2017-07-272017-07-272017-02-272017-07-27http://hdl.handle.net/10315/33545The Argument (with annotations) is an appropriated-footage essay about metaphor specifically, the seemingly commonplace human knack for constructing and understanding metaphors. Its unseen narrator's line of thought takes us on a jagged path past the works of T.S. Eliot, Groucho Marx, John Carpenter, and Terence Davies, plus some lackadaisical astronomy and a 1960s television series with a very distinctive font. There is also a riddle about mirrors that's either the best riddle about mirrors you've ever heard or the worst one. That's what the film is for a while, anyway. Then something else happens. The Argument is intended as a riff on the genres of the essay-film and the more recent video essay form, a riff whose narrators authority is called into question, and whose audience, thinking they are watching an appropriated-footage piece, has the rug pulled out from underneath them when they find that they are watching a fiction film.enAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.LiteratureElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2017-07-27FilmMetaphorDaniel CockburnClare CoulterLiteratureLanguageNorthrop FryeChristopher BollasLakoff and JohnsonR.D. LaingPaul SchraderZenFictionGeoff DyerHomerIliadJohn CarpenterT.S. EliotPoetryMirrorsThe PrisonerPatrick McGoohanThe Big LebowksiSchizophrenia