With my skillz of media literacy I have reviewed this media and have concluded that this photograph is a symbolic of a late term capitalism and the approved message being "those with degrees are gods on earth, whom none must question."
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The thing that makes media literacy important is when it crosses over into cancel culture. There is a massive wave of pearl clutching, censorship, and hate thrown toward movies, books, t.v. shows, etc because the person misses the point. If it’s a matter of taste, yeah, no big deal, but when people insist on attacking anything that they don’t understand or just don’t like, it’s a problem. Remember that “The Diary of Anne Frank” was censored for being “too depressing”!
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I once attended a cinema class lead by a professor who said that if he saw Star Wars IV one more time, he'd put a bullet in his head. Yep, clearly HIS media literacy makes him an expert on the subject.
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What kills me is that the sorts of people who talk about "media literacy" all the time often tend to be borderline illiterate themselves.
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Shade, that's not very Media Literate of you, infact I think you're Media Illiterate which is the basis of fascistic tendencies, if you've actually looked at the Reddit, you'd know- <insert paragraph here> Srsly tho, same. Imagine being told you need to interpret art a certain way to fit a certain narrative, and counter wise; imagine needing to shame people for not fitting that narrow viewpoint.
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Shade Nocturne
The term "Media Literacy" has done irreparable damage to the movie reviewing community.
It has become an exclusionary, elitist, reddit-head term used only in attempt to artificially inflate one's own status and opinions while discrediting opposition by labelling them "morons" who "missed the point" of a piece of media.
Yes, some people do miss, even outright refuse, to acknowledge metaphor and subtext. The same way we don't always know the historical inaccuracy in Brave heart, yet we enjoy it on other levels.
I do not tell people HOW to enjoy a movie. I never have and I never will. We pay money to see them, we spend hours working to afford them; you are free to feel however you like about them.
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