MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes -Doxa, Bricolage, Slash Fiction
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Media erotics: explores the array of resistive pleasures that audiences derive from media by examining the various sensuous, creative, and transgressive ways in which persons use and interpret media. The term erotic derives from eros, the greek god of lust, sublimated impulses, creative urges, and fertility. Like eros, erotics or eroticism has two principle characteristics: one involving prohibition, taboo, and transgression (i. e repressed desire), and the other involving production, expenditure and dissemination (i. e seminal fluids) Thus, eroticism is, at once, disruptive (of the status quo or established order) and productive (of something new) In other words, eroticism concerns the subject and her/his individual desires, and not simply an innate urge to reproduce. We also find profound enjoyment in the transgression of taboos. Resistance: those symbolic and material practices that challenge, subvert, or suspend the cultural codes, rules, or norms, which through their everyday operation create, sustain, and naturalize the prevailing social structure in a particular space and time.
