I’m finding it really hard to read a text and not be biased or passionate when analysing it, but I know I have the capability to. This was a big part of the curriculum in year 12 and those months of text analysis practice do come back to me.

The part that stood out to me the most from Alan McKee’s “A beginner’s guide to textual analysis” was the comparative analogy where he contrasted a western viewers interpretation of an image to an Indigenous Australian’s interpretation/ This gave me an understanding of how an audience or producer’s reality can exist in different planes, and how there is no inaccuracy, because the experiences of a collective audience is so vast that any piece of media is sure to resonate with someone.

It really does come down to context as the way we can understand and interpret. The contexts are the items that we can critique, not the content.

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