On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 06:31 PM, kelley at pulpculture.org wrote:
> At 05:33 PM 4/9/02 -0500, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>
>> i don't think the rabbit-lady disgusts people. i think the state of
>> her life disgusts people. i don't think she's portrayed as an idiot, a
>> joke, or laughable.
>
>
> *sigh* i was talking about how my students react. i said this in my
> post to brad. i have stacks of response papers from years of using this
> film in intro, social problems, family, soc of work, and citizenship
> class. i pointed out that i was just shocked when they had these odd
> responses. they zeroed in on all the zany things working people did and
> on the dinner party where they hired people as statues. everything else
> escapes them. everyone else is doing something reasonable--even the
> bumbling chamber folks aren't seen as *that* stupid. what my students
> see as stupid is to imagine that Flint could be tourist attraction.
> but that's just a goof, cause otherwise they see the chamber folks as
> having the right idea.
yeah, ok, i can see all that, having been frustrated and flummoxed by students, myself. but then, that's why *you're* there, right. ;-)
>
> i saw it early on and had something of a framework to interpret, as
> would most of the doco viewing audience that moore originally made it
> for. it has become bigger than that and, as such, it gets read
> independently of the author's intentions. what? can't handle a little
> pomo reader response analysis there, jeff? :p
touche -- dissemination: 1, jeff: 0. oh, wait, i'm on the same side as dissemination! ow! quit it. ow! quit it. ow! quit it. (etc. etc.)
:-)
j