quoted 3 lines ...still, an analogy: has anyone>...still, an analogy: has anyone
>painted a picture in the stlye of jackson pollack that looks anything
>unlike just another jackson pollack painting?
According to popular culture theorists, a media text, such as a jackson
pollock painting or chiastic slide or whatever, exists in three separate
stages. These are PRODUCTION, the TEXT itself, and CONSUMPTION.
Analysing a text in accordance with the connection between the production
and text would be concerned with who facilitated it, how did they do it,
and for what reason (did jackson pollock paint it? does it copy his
style? for what reason did someone paint it? or is it on skam or warp?
or similar).
Analysing how a text is consumed (the study of hermeneutics) is concerned
with interpretation - what do people see in the text?; what are the
meanings, values, & pleasures of a text to a consumer? (does it matter
that pollock painted it (is the pleasure in it reduced if it isn't
actually by him)? what does the text communicate to an observer? etc...).
Personally, I don't believe the two can be wholly separated. It would
matter to me if it was Sean Booth & Rob Brown over an appropriater of
their style (though, their particular stylistic form may be hard to
replicate authentically... ;) ) as it would matter to me that an Albert
Oehlen (or whomever) painting was authentic - but these are values I give
to the text.
If I had no personal history of any sort which included connections with
a media text then would it matter to me at all who I was listening to or
what I was seeing?
"Ladies, I don't care what your names are, I just want you to have a good
time...". "I'm mad for anything, me".
Sorry to be so long winded... :)
Rubyjune.