No doubt you’ve encountered the disconnect between art one likes and art one enjoys; I mentioned it myself last Thursday. The basic principle here is that we might like something for its depth and complexity, but not enjoy it on a visceral level, or we might enjoy something viscerally without lauding its inherent structural mastery and societal influence, and of course overlap is frequent. It’s a simple concept, and I think we might benefit from complicating it a little. And when it comes to complicating things, you know I’m always up to the task.
Archive for the ‘Theory’ Category
Disorganized thoughts on subjectivity
Posted 22 April 2010And now I shall swing the makeshift club of social science at anime fandom yet again — taking a class in mass media theory is convenient that way — and talk about subjectivity. You might also read this as an attack vs. objectivity, but I don’t really think of it like that. No point in beating the deadest horse there is.
Porno: the violent genre?
Posted 30 March 2010Is it still soon enough after the fact that we haven’t allowed our subcultural amnesia to rob us of Mr. Handley? I’ve said more than I care to say on the matter already — but, while combing through articles on media effects, I came across an interesting notion.
That being: pornography is “violent” media.
Authorial shell/text vs. text-image
Posted 24 March 2009I’ve gone over this before, but in a post so tl;dr that I’m sure it could bear some repeating. It’ll probably be relevant to the Casshern Sins post I want to write for Super Fanicom, and if not, it’ll at least give me a good starting point. Besides, I mention “text-image” enough, and it’d be nice to have a compact reference post to link to when I do.
