Texts may be:
- Open-unravelled, in many threads E.g soaps
- Closed-only one obvious thread to pull on E.g Children programmes
Action codes:
- Any action that implies a further narrative action E.g a gun fight
- Refers to any element in a story that is not explained and therefore exists as an enigma for the audience, raising questions that demand explication.
- Any element in a text that suggests a particular, often additional meaning by way of connotation.
- Any element in a narrative that refers "to a science or a body of knowledge." In other words, the cultural codes tend to point our shared knowledge of how the world works.
Rupes, where is the symbolic code?
ReplyDeleteRemember, the symbolic is often the 'grey' area between binary opposites. You could think of a rich businessman stood smoking a cigar next to a poor starving child. We'd think how and why has this happened?
Similarly if you think back to the Eisenstein montage with the bongs and bings played whilst religious iconography is displayed in the background we inferred a symbolic meaning that religion was bad.