Rockler: Sue p12

Rockler in this section of the article is examining student’s responses to whether they should analyze popular culture texts. She interpreted some of the student’s responses as they believe the films should not be analyzed because they are intended for entertainment purposes. While Sue, a student in the white woman’s focus group, said that these films should only be interpreted to an extent because there are movies that purposely have a hidden message behind it while there are movies that are not made to have a hidden message. She claims that examining the entertaining movies will cause it to lose its entertainment. Rockler says that the producer is the main factor in determining if the movie is made strictly for entertainment or for some greater purpose. At times this may be true, but due to the way people are programmed, there is always going to be some sort of bias or maybe even an unintentional political statement in the media. This is one of the main ideas that Rockler missed when analyzing the student’s responses.