> Formal interpretations merely strive to say how the elements of the text > relate: Dorothy's shoes are red because the film is organized by primary > colors; her dress has blue, the road is yellow; only so many choices were > available for primary colors; the witch being green is determined by her > relation of opposition to the shoes blah blah blah. But such > interpretations are dry because they have no semantic dimension: they are > sheerly syntactic. Are you sure? The shoes weren't red in the book, nor was the witch green... ;) ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite