Rhetorical Theories and Teaching Writing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy4oGrx8Clc

Maria Shriver (ex Mrs Swartzenegger) interiews Neil Marcus and his brother and shows brief excerpts of Marcus' play, Storm Reading.  Rather unrevealing about NM's writing process etc.   But worth watching.  For me this raises a number of issues:  one is how Shriver frames the interview etc., the language (words and bodily) used to enframe NM.  Another is how what we see here works within Garland-Thompson's realist mode of representation and mainstream disability activism (pro-visibility and rights) but also, I'd suggest, within the exotic, since Neil's body could be seen through the camera's conventional gaze as grotesque.  Maybe not.  I'm interested to hear what you think.  At the same time, NM has "mediated rhetoricity" (C L-W) through his brother.