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Follow the Money - Buffy
Feb. 7th, 2006 11:36 amOkay, so the Media section of the cultural studies book started out with talking on the 'production, distribution, exhibition and sale of media products'.
Its a follow the money thing, see who pays for what where, and who controls what.
Media messages are shaped by the means and conditions of all that up there.
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I kind of really want to grab a book and analyse it in comparison to the Buffy tv series, and see if the feminist message and gender roles carry over into the other media. I mean Buffy still kicks ass... usually... but how about the subtleties?
And also on the subject of canon - episodes are. But are they in the form first broadcast, the form on DVD, the form the BBC broadcast...? Because those are often significantly different. Which can be part of where the arguments come in, of course.
Was there a scene with Spike and preparing a 'romantic' evening for Buffy? Is that one that vanished or reappeared or something?
And then there are the scenes we only get on the internet, like downloads of naked Spike. That isn't an official part of the message but it is part of what gets received.
And how about subtitles? We analyse the subtleties of language in the Jossverse (and get a lot out of it), but for some readers that text is quite a bit different, since without the sound the words aren't always the same. I don't know how big the differences are in the Buffyverse, I haven't done that part of my comparison yet (am going to, for Halloween and The Dark Age. Unless I get distracted by something shinier :eyeroll:). But online transcripts write down the things that were spoken onscreen, and usually arguments about canon are from speech, not subtitle. Do they modify meaning? For those of us that watch both?
Then there's translated versions, but that goes off the edge of what I could possibly be coherent about.
Okay, that's all I've got right now. I think I could do with some help from the colletive brain. What have I forgotten, where should I start looking, what opinions have y'all got about it all?
Its a follow the money thing, see who pays for what where, and who controls what.
Media messages are shaped by the means and conditions of all that up there.
( Read more... )
I kind of really want to grab a book and analyse it in comparison to the Buffy tv series, and see if the feminist message and gender roles carry over into the other media. I mean Buffy still kicks ass... usually... but how about the subtleties?
And also on the subject of canon - episodes are. But are they in the form first broadcast, the form on DVD, the form the BBC broadcast...? Because those are often significantly different. Which can be part of where the arguments come in, of course.
Was there a scene with Spike and preparing a 'romantic' evening for Buffy? Is that one that vanished or reappeared or something?
And then there are the scenes we only get on the internet, like downloads of naked Spike. That isn't an official part of the message but it is part of what gets received.
And how about subtitles? We analyse the subtleties of language in the Jossverse (and get a lot out of it), but for some readers that text is quite a bit different, since without the sound the words aren't always the same. I don't know how big the differences are in the Buffyverse, I haven't done that part of my comparison yet (am going to, for Halloween and The Dark Age. Unless I get distracted by something shinier :eyeroll:). But online transcripts write down the things that were spoken onscreen, and usually arguments about canon are from speech, not subtitle. Do they modify meaning? For those of us that watch both?
Then there's translated versions, but that goes off the edge of what I could possibly be coherent about.
Okay, that's all I've got right now. I think I could do with some help from the colletive brain. What have I forgotten, where should I start looking, what opinions have y'all got about it all?