MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Participatory Media, Carnivalesque, Complete Control

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An approach that explores the array of resistive pleasures that audiences derive from media by examining various sensuous, creative, and transgressive ways in which persons use and experience media. Cultural resistance: tendency after studying the topic of resistance to see it in everything. A text that is structured to elicit a particular, usually singular, response from audiences. open text. A text that is structured to call for active participation of the behalf of audiences in the production of meaning. plaisir jouissance. A hegemonic pleasure; a comfortable and comforting pleasure that reproduces dominant culture/subjectivity. A radically disruptive pleasure; an elusive and ecstatic pleasure that destabilizes culture/subjectivity. interpretive play. An improvisational mode of reading that ignores dominant interpretive codes in favor of pursuing immediate bodily desires. cruising. The interpretive practice of reading with one s body. abjection carnivalesque intertextuality irony liminality depthlessness. Provides a useful way to understand the pleasure of horror film.

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