Three Artifacts

One artifact I think that I could analyze using the ideological criticism is the stop motion cartoon "Robot Chicken." This will be a good artifact to analyze because it not only deals with many popular issues and items but it pokes fun at them showing them from different lights.

The second artifact I believe I would be able to analyze using ideological criticism is the book "World War Z." I believe it would be good to analyze because it is a criticism of humanity, the government, and many other things.

The third item I believe that I would be able to analzye using the criticism is the magazine Vogue. I believe this because it tells the reader what to wear, what to think is popular, and why they should wear it.

Ideology

1. An ideology is "a pattern of beliefs that determines a groups interpretations of some aspects of the world." "It is a mental framework that a group has to make sense of the world."
2. The primary components that make up an ideology are "evaluative beliefs or beliefs where there are possible alternative judgements." "Some examples are anti-communism, christianity, patriotism, and anti-terrorism."

Neo-Aristotelian criiticism

The text book defines neo-Aristotelian as the traditional method of criticism which is concerned with the effect of something on the audience and analyzing artifacts to determine not only their effect, but their importance to the message.
The three steps of analysising an artifact are to recenstruct the context where the artifact occured, apply the five cannons to the artifact, and to assess its impact on the audience.
The five cannons of rhetoric are invention, organization, style, memory, and delivery.