I thought that the whole concept of visual rhetoric to be incredibly intersting. People can say so much even before they open their mouths. What are people trying to say when they portray themselves a certain way? What does a hairstyle or t-shirt represent about a person? How deliberate is this message?
I want to focus more specifically on the hipster movement. What is the rhetoric behind this movement? The hipster movement is a very interesting one because hipsters are deliberately trying to say something in the way they dress, the items in which they invest, the way they act. However, I don't think that they are successful in their representation. They strive for individuality and non-comformity, and yet they have conformed to their movement. Marketing helps in this, as they have found what it means to be "cool" and caters to this mindset.
In my paper, I'm going to look at the Hipster movement from a rhetorical perspective, try to analyze exactly what they are trying to say, and whether or not they were successful in their rhetoric.
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