MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Roman Jakobson, Media Studies, Semiotics
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The class so far, part 1 - political economy: Either through the theatre or through an illegal downloading service, for example); code (code of movie made in hollywood would be english): poe"s law: "without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won"t mistake for the real thing. " "poe"s law is an axiom suggesting that it"s difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between parodies of religious or other fundamentalism and its genuine proponents, since they both seem equally insane. For example, some conservatives consider noted homophobe fred. Phelps to be so over-the-top that they argue he"s a "deep cover liberal" trying to discredit more mainstream homophobes. " 1920s and early 1930s: theorists such as max horkheimer, theodor adorno, herbert marcuse, leo. "the codes of encoding and decoding may not be perfectly symmetrical. "
