The artifact I am going to analyze through Pentadic Criticism is www.Postsecret.com. The Post secrets is also a book, but since I do not have one of the books I am going to analyze the website. Postsecret.com is website where you can view all kinds of "secrets" people send in on the back of a postcard. It is a form of art, for people to be creative and express themselves through there trials/tribulations or about the good times of life, love and happiness. The postcards are anonymous sent in to the address 1335 Copper Ridge Road, Germantown Maryland to a man named frank, who started this whole tradition. The website is revealing the secrets that were sent to him. You can view the exact postcard, not just what is written on them.
Agent-the person sending the secret
Act-The secret or sending the secret
Agency-The postcard
Scene- the minds of the person sending the secret
Purpose-to expose the secrets they have kept bottled up inside.
Scene - Act: yes
Scene - agent: no
Scene - agency: yes
Scene - purpose: yes
Act - Scene: no
Act - Agent: no
Act - Agency: Yes
Act - Purpose: yes
Agent - Scene : yes
Agent-Act: yes
Agent - Agency: yes
Agent - Purpose: yes
Agency-Scene - yes
Agency - Act - yes
Agency- Agent-no
Agency-purpose-yes
Purpose-Scene: no
Purpose-act: yes
Purpose-agent: no
Purpose-agency: yes
As a result of these ratio's, the most dominant element that is the controlling term is the agent.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a film about a man named Joel, and a woman named Clementine. The two people fall in love, but after years of trying to make their relationship work they, Clementine has a procedure done that erases Joel from his memory. Once Joel realizes that she had him erased from her memory, he then decides to have the same process done. While Joel is getting his memory erased he sees happier memories from the beginning of their relationship, and struggles to hang on to some trace or memory of Clementine. The majority of the film takes place in Joel’s head, where his memories of Clementine are being swept away. They meet again in the future, with both their memories of each other totally erased, but are still drawn to each other, with no record in there mind of ever being in love.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind suggests and ideology that is not one that actually happens in reality. It creates and Ideology around memory and fate. The film wants the audience to act as if this procedure to erase memories is true, and to look at it in different perspectives. Eternal Sunshine, all through out the movie portrays the question; if you could have someone, or something, from your memory erased, would you? Clementine no longer wanted Joel in her memory, because of the pain their relationship had caused her, so the procedure worked out positively. This is the way the film wanted the audience to see the process in a positive light. When Joel went to get his memory erased, he realized that a couple of bad memories did not weigh out the good ones, so he began struggling to grasp onto at least a couple good memories of Clementine during the procedure. The film wants the audience to question, is it really worth it to get this procedure done? Looking back on memories makes a person who they are, and builds the hearts and character of humans. When Joel and Clementine are reunited in the movie, even after having their memories erased, it suggests that love and fate conquers all, even if you cannot remember that person. In this life we are just supposed to know people, because those people are part of the ingredients that makes us who we are.
Delving a little further into this ideology of memory, the movie suggests this ideology through a romantic stance. Even though this procedure to erase memories, is fake, the movie uses this to provide knowledge about real realtionships and romance that we experiance in life.The movie represents romance and love not only through the good times, but through the bad. It does not portray the fairytale feeling. Even though the movies events seem out there the situations they encounter as a couple are realistic. The film makes you take a step back from that “love is perfect” feeling that movies usually give. It suggests that relationships are never perfect, whether they work out in the end or not. The movie suggests that taking away those bad memories can backfire, because then you would no longer have the good memories that you enjoyed so much. The film shows they both made mistakes in their relationship, and even though it didn’t work out, taking away the memories, will prevent them from looking back and building on what they learned from each other. The beginning/end of the movie where they meet again after having the procedure, suggests that these memories were supposed to happy, and everything happens for a reason, because they end up meeting again. The movie suggests that the audience should not forget good or bad times that may have occurred, but to further grow from the experiences. Joel felt emptiness, because this important portion of his life had just disappeared.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind suggests and ideology that is not one that actually happens in reality. It creates and Ideology around memory and fate. The film wants the audience to act as if this procedure to erase memories is true, and to look at it in different perspectives. Eternal Sunshine, all through out the movie portrays the question; if you could have someone, or something, from your memory erased, would you? Clementine no longer wanted Joel in her memory, because of the pain their relationship had caused her, so the procedure worked out positively. This is the way the film wanted the audience to see the process in a positive light. When Joel went to get his memory erased, he realized that a couple of bad memories did not weigh out the good ones, so he began struggling to grasp onto at least a couple good memories of Clementine during the procedure. The film wants the audience to question, is it really worth it to get this procedure done? Looking back on memories makes a person who they are, and builds the hearts and character of humans. When Joel and Clementine are reunited in the movie, even after having their memories erased, it suggests that love and fate conquers all, even if you cannot remember that person. In this life we are just supposed to know people, because those people are part of the ingredients that makes us who we are.
Delving a little further into this ideology of memory, the movie suggests this ideology through a romantic stance. Even though this procedure to erase memories, is fake, the movie uses this to provide knowledge about real realtionships and romance that we experiance in life.The movie represents romance and love not only through the good times, but through the bad. It does not portray the fairytale feeling. Even though the movies events seem out there the situations they encounter as a couple are realistic. The film makes you take a step back from that “love is perfect” feeling that movies usually give. It suggests that relationships are never perfect, whether they work out in the end or not. The movie suggests that taking away those bad memories can backfire, because then you would no longer have the good memories that you enjoyed so much. The film shows they both made mistakes in their relationship, and even though it didn’t work out, taking away the memories, will prevent them from looking back and building on what they learned from each other. The beginning/end of the movie where they meet again after having the procedure, suggests that these memories were supposed to happy, and everything happens for a reason, because they end up meeting again. The movie suggests that the audience should not forget good or bad times that may have occurred, but to further grow from the experiences. Joel felt emptiness, because this important portion of his life had just disappeared.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Three Artifacts
One artifact I can analyze using ideological criticism is the commercial about pro-life that is going to be aired durig the superbowl. Tim Tebow plays for the Florida, Gators and is airing his ad against pro choice during the super bowl, rather than airing an all male dating site, Mancrunch.com. This commerical advertising controversy can be looked at through several views of ideological criticism such as the ideology of pro life and abortion, and the ideology of gay rights. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/NATL-CBS-Rejects-Gay-Dating-Sites-Super-Bowl-Ad-83144577.html I am a communications major so different advertisings are a good artifact to analyze.
Another artifact that I could analyze is some of the different Haiti relief efforts. Some companies and programs really care about the relief in Haiti, but others could be doing it strictly for good Public relations. Public relations is another part of the communication field that is very important, and it would be very interesting to see analyze these different reliefs. Other artifacts related to this to analyze would be artifacts in magazines about different stars and companies and how their public relations are effecting them.
The last artifact that would be interesting to analyze would be fear in loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson. I think this artifact would be fun to analyze using ideological criticism because it challenges the ideology of the American Dream. It also has a lot of metaphors and symbolism. It would be fascinating to look at the aspect of gonzo journalism, by hunter S. Thompson through ideological criticism.
Another artifact that I could analyze is some of the different Haiti relief efforts. Some companies and programs really care about the relief in Haiti, but others could be doing it strictly for good Public relations. Public relations is another part of the communication field that is very important, and it would be very interesting to see analyze these different reliefs. Other artifacts related to this to analyze would be artifacts in magazines about different stars and companies and how their public relations are effecting them.
The last artifact that would be interesting to analyze would be fear in loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson. I think this artifact would be fun to analyze using ideological criticism because it challenges the ideology of the American Dream. It also has a lot of metaphors and symbolism. It would be fascinating to look at the aspect of gonzo journalism, by hunter S. Thompson through ideological criticism.
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