ENGL 359 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Paratext, Erich Ludendorff, San Diego Comic-Con
22 Apr 2019
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Time to start to think final project multimedia essay. Advertiser is the consumer; viewer is the product. Meaning is not limited to the text . Don"t judge a book by its cover : however, we do judge it by the text/cover. A paratext is both distinct from and intrinsically part of the text. Paratexts frame meaning before, during, and after we consume primary texts. Paratexts can reinforce dominant meanings, or subvert them. Memes: the twitter homework to make meme is actually making paratext. Why wonder woman is a masterpiece of subversive feminism. Wonder woman is a blockbuster that lets itself have fun. Why wonder woman is bittersweet for black women. Why wonder woman isn"t the feminist fantasy we"ve been told it is. Women on top 100 grossing films of 2017. 76% of all female characters were white in the top 100 films of 2016. 14% were black, 6% were asian, and 3% were latina.
