Comments on: Digressions at the Cinema, 2008 http://www.extratextual.tv/2008/01/digressions-at-the-cinema-2008/ Up The Content Stream Without A Paddle Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:55:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Kristina Busse http://www.extratextual.tv/2008/01/digressions-at-the-cinema-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Kristina Busse Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:14:42 +0000 http://www.extratextual.tv/2008/01/digressions-at-the-cinema-2008/#comment-334 I like this idea of another layer of intertext and I immediately started connecting it to the way I talk about how the fantext affects our reading of a show (yes, I'm a one trick pony--why are you asking? : ): in a way, I don't think we watch/read much purely. I mean, how often have already discussed spoilers before we ever see the first screenshot; how often have we read early reviews; how often do our conversations about a character arc affect the way we watch a new episode. Just like the other paratextual effects you and I have talked about (commercials, clicking between channels, etc) whom we watch with (whether literally in the theatre or in front of the TV screen or virtually as we're checking our flist during the ep or have already seen the squeey LJ cuts), what you're describing here is an aspect I think is way understudied--mostly because it's so idiosyncratic. In a way, then, i think we could look at fandom and interpretive communities that create certain shared paratextual expectations as a way to look at this phenomenon in larger numbers and with actual textual manifestations (episode responses and post ep fic etc)??? Wait, aren't we already arguing that??? *bg* I like this idea of another layer of intertext and I immediately started connecting it to the way I talk about how the fantext affects our reading of a show (yes, I’m a one trick pony–why are you asking? : ): in a way, I don’t think we watch/read much purely. I mean, how often have already discussed spoilers before we ever see the first screenshot; how often have we read early reviews; how often do our conversations about a character arc affect the way we watch a new episode.

Just like the other paratextual effects you and I have talked about (commercials, clicking between channels, etc) whom we watch with (whether literally in the theatre or in front of the TV screen or virtually as we’re checking our flist during the ep or have already seen the squeey LJ cuts), what you’re describing here is an aspect I think is way understudied–mostly because it’s so idiosyncratic.

In a way, then, i think we could look at fandom and interpretive communities that create certain shared paratextual expectations as a way to look at this phenomenon in larger numbers and with actual textual manifestations (episode responses and post ep fic etc)??? Wait, aren’t we already arguing that??? *bg*

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