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I promise these skills are taught in school. Sometimes what you really need is a hand saw, and trying to use any of the others.well, you can, but it’s going to make a mess and you might not be able to salvage the pieces left over. Sometimes you need a wrench and trying to use a hammer or screwdriver is going to make you declare that the bolt is problematic and should never be used by anyone. Sometimes you can make a hammer work where what you need is a screwdriver, but you’re going to end up stripping the screw sometimes you can use a screwdriver in place of a hammer, but it’s going to take a lot more effort and brute force and you risk breaking the screwdriver. My point is: Like OP said, sometimes the tool you need is a hammer. She somehow didn’t expect me to pack a toolbox. She wanted us to grab the a hammer, or a screwdriver, or a spanner, and carry that with us for the rest of our lives. My teacher didn’t like that, by the way she’d wanted each of us to pick one of these schools of thought we’d been learning about and make it “our” school of thought. If you have trained yourself to view every piece of media through a single specific critical lens - well, you’re going to be only viewing it through that lens, and that means you’re going to read or watch it in such a way that you’re looking for the themes you’ve trained yourself to look for. So for my final paper for that class, I wrote an essay that basically had the thesis of “when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”.
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I remember reading both of those and thinking “wow, these people are really reaching for some of this”, but the more I read into the analysis and the history of those schools of thought, the more I got it. The two I remember specifically were a Marxist interpretation and a feminist interpretation. We had special editions of the book where the first half of it was the novel itself, and the last half was like five or six different critical analyses of the book from different schools of theory. Specifically, I remember when we read The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James. And one of the things we learned about was all the different ways of reading/interpreting/criticizing media - not just books, ANY form of media. One of our required classes was Theory & Criticism, and I ended up hating it specifically because of the teacher and the way she taught it, but the actual T&C part of it was interesting. Lololol you arent supposed to kin Gatsby. I hate Gatsby and Catcher because all the characters are shitty" which point. I dont know what my point here is, really, find it very funny when people are like "ugh. that's how you get some hilariously bad literary analysis. If someone who has only ever analyzed media this way is all of a sudden handed Lolita or 1984 or Gatsby, which deal in shitty unreliable narrators or even books like Beloved or Catcher in the Rye (VERY different books) that have narrators dealing with and reacting to challenging situations- well. Which is fine if you're looking at, like, 99% of popular anime and YA fiction and Marvel movies.īut it can completely fall apart with certain kinds of media. Themes are built around agreeing with the protagonists and condemning the antagonists, and taking the protagonists at their word. Mainly, you're supposed to LIKE and AGREE with the main characters. Not a BAD way, just a SPECIFIC way.Īnd the kind of media that attracts fandoms lends itself well (normally) to those kinds of analysis. One thing about fandom culture is that it sort of trains you to interact with and analyze media in a very specific way.