The Importance Of Intersectionality In Movies

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Introduction
In accordance with Henry Jenkins argument in “Get a Life!”: Fans, Poachers, Nomads, Jenkins argues that there is another angle to which media fans can be viewed and attempt to be understood with regards to a culture that is not considered widely and often portrayed within negative terms. Jenkins reading emphasises to the readers that fans of media texts are being depicted as a culture which possesses negative characteristics, that which could be considered as taboo as well as another side to fan culture that’s does not receive as much recognition. These media fans are recognised as active readers of the text. The two films selected: Avatar and WALL-E, are films that are both within the genre of science fiction. The films having …show more content…

The process of intersectionality allows for the generating of new meanings to occur in the control of the fan itself; the textual …show more content…

A second path in which audience can be analysed is the way in which the audience receive the text; the messages in which the film sends. The underlying issues incorporated within the film, regarded the public’s “consumer-driven lifestyle whereby convenience and complacency have supplanted personal liberty” with reference to society and the way in which people live (Krier 2008). This has been implemented into the film in such as a way (with regards to being a futuristic film) to allow for the audience to question their actions where WALL-E “cleverly illustrates that things previously taken for granted, even things as simple as the color green itself” (Krier,

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