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Re: License plates and other meanings of meaning
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"Shari L. Rosenblum" <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 2 Nov 1999 02:21:18 EST
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In a message dated 11/1/99 11:17:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,

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> The kinds of over-interpretation Franks refers to--looking for religious

>  references, e.g.--are one specific kind of interpretation:  the kind which

>  seeks to translate the text via a specific code.  (E.g., Dorothy's shoes

are

>  red because red means danger or red means sexuality or red means

>  communism....etc.)  What needs to be argued in such cases is why this code

>  is more valid than another.



Or, why this code is no less valid than another . . .



Shari L. Rosenblum



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