Rhetoric of the image in the documentary film -science and Islam- -semiological study-

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the rhetoric of the image in the documentary film (Science and Islam), and to complete this research was based on a systematic plan that enables us to answer the problem of the study and achieve its objectives, where the semiology was chosen as a method of research through Roland Barths approach as the most appropriate to study of image in all its semiotic and rhetorical manifestations. In addition to the use of observation as a tool for collecting data as the film is an audiovisual material. After the analysis process the study reached a set of results, the most important of which are: The documentary science and Islam bears significant semiological signs. In addition, the documentary used rhetorical image that shows the bright side of Islam far from fanaticism and terrorism as propagated in western media