Elizabeth Byrne Post Class 1/30 (it wouldn't show up in my original post)
In Tuesday’s class discussion I found the difference between writerly and readerly texts very interesting. The way that today’s society looks at media and other things such as signs or simple pieces of art is intriguing how different people interpret things. In CMC 100 last semester we really looked at today’s magazines and tore them apart to see how we saw what they said. Something like a grocery list or directions are very simple and straightforward, however Dolce and Gabana’s high fashion ads brought a class discussion that could have lasted multiple class periods. The picture was a woman laying on the ground with a number of shirtless, strong men just wearing jeans standing over the model. This brought up a lot of argument because on one side people thought of it as a piece of art and looked at it as an innocent text. On the other hand, how can one not over look the idea of women being oppressed and inferior to men in society? The idea of women and power has been talked about in my Religion and the Body class, and it is hard to overlook the idea that women are just objects to men. Also when we were talking about signs, I was thinking what does this ad stand for? The women are posed in a sexual position, as the strong men over look her as a piece of meat. Or did the advertisers not mean to allude to fact that women are more prone to be sexual harassed and it is just an ad for a high fashion clothing company? During our last class I was also thinking about how most texts revolve around other texts. The point that it depends on what order you read the books is was also interesting. I was reading my homework for Religion and the Body and they related back to many of Foucault’s ideas and a light bulb went off in my head. I wouldn’t have any idea of the background or history of Foucault if I hadn’t studied his work last semester. I may not have though that I would be reading Foucault in a Critical Media and Cultural Studies class and then analyzing the same foreign writing in my Religion class.
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Elizabeth Byrne Post Class 1/30
(it wouldn't show up in my original post)
In Tuesday’s class discussion I found the difference between writerly and readerly texts very interesting. The way that today’s society looks at media and other things such as signs or simple pieces of art is intriguing how different people interpret things. In CMC 100 last semester we really looked at today’s magazines and tore them apart to see how we saw what they said. Something like a grocery list or directions are very simple and straightforward, however Dolce and Gabana’s high fashion ads brought a class discussion that could have lasted multiple class periods. The picture was a woman laying on the ground with a number of shirtless, strong men just wearing jeans standing over the model. This brought up a lot of argument because on one side people thought of it as a piece of art and looked at it as an innocent text. On the other hand, how can one not over look the idea of women being oppressed and inferior to men in society? The idea of women and power has been talked about in my Religion and the Body class, and it is hard to overlook the idea that women are just objects to men. Also when we were talking about signs, I was thinking what does this ad stand for? The women are posed in a sexual position, as the strong men over look her as a piece of meat. Or did the advertisers not mean to allude to fact that women are more prone to be sexual harassed and it is just an ad for a high fashion clothing company?
During our last class I was also thinking about how most texts revolve around other texts. The point that it depends on what order you read the books is was also interesting. I was reading my homework for Religion and the Body and they related back to many of Foucault’s ideas and a light bulb went off in my head. I wouldn’t have any idea of the background or history of Foucault if I hadn’t studied his work last semester. I may not have though that I would be reading Foucault in a Critical Media and Cultural Studies class and then analyzing the same foreign writing in my Religion class.
good connections
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