MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Grotesque Body, Orgasm, Sensemaking
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Plaisir: a hegemonic pleasure; a comfortable and comforting pleasure that reproduces dominant culture/subjectivity. Jouissance: which is often translated into english as bliss, ecstasy, or orgasm is an ecstatic and disruptive pleasure that emerges from an active engagement with the text. Media erotics: reflects a concern with the sensuous, transgressive, and productive ways audiences interact with texts. Transgression refers to an action or artistic practice that breaks with the prevailing cultural codes and conventions of society (i. e. those codes and conventions that function to sustain the ideological status quo in a particular place and time) (ex. Mickie mouse example within the textbook, drunken mickie mouse fondling a woman. ) Productive: something that is generative of alternative pleasures, meanings, and identities. Readerly text: is one whose meaning is relatively clear and settled and, therefore, asks very little of the audience. Writerly text: is more unfinished and unsettled and, thus, invites the audience to co-create its meaning. (active involvement and interpretation of the audience)
