Hunger Games Recontextual Analysis

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The Art of constructing, or The Constructing of Art What is Recontextualization? Recontextualization is to change the form of an original textual artifact into a different form. For example, the series of the Hunger Games was first written in the form of books, then the stories that were first presented in the books were recontextualized into videos that were put together to make a movie. In this case the theme stayed the same, the new form of the Hunger Games is a movie, which has sound effects, picture, sound, and some scenes were different in the movie. The meaning of the original form will possibly change depending on the new form, and the interpretive community it is presented in. These points will be explored more in depth as the poem …show more content…

The artifact would go from a short story into an image. The new form would not consist of paragraphs, texts, and the theme would most likely stay the same, it all depends on what the creator is intending to show. The new artifact would consist of a picture that will be shown. The picture can consist of a background image, for example the players, fans, coaches, referees would be visible. The audience would be able to see how the players look and how they differ from the other team. The time of the day and the weather would be shown, and the conditions of the field. The Scoreboard would be visible, along with the place the soccer match taking place in. This new form would attract painters, and the interpretations will differ from the ones that were made when the form of the artifact was a poem and when it was a short story. For example, when the Harry Potter book series was changed into a new form, the meaning stayed the same, just the form changed. The new form was a film, which consisted of sounds, picture, character, and voice. This new form attracted hundreds of thousands of people who did not even read a single book of the Harry Potter series to watch the film because this new form was more appealing to the audience, an audience who had an interest towards video pictures, not mental images the books created. The assumptions people make are based on what they already know about something they have not even read or seen before. For example, one audience can make an assumption that claims the film is better than the books, and that audience probably has not read the books or watched the Harry Potter film. This an example of how interpretive communities’ influence the assumptions people make based on a certain artifact, and or thing. These assumptions will change depending on the interpretive community the audience belongs to. The form an artifact is presented will also affect the assumptions, and interpretations an

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