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A 5 page paper which discusses the importance of Robert Scholes’ position on analyzing video text for meaning. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Importance of Analyzing Video Text Research Compiled for by J.A. Rodgers, February 2011 To Use This Paper Properly,
Please Introduction While there has been deep study and analysis of literature an even film for many generations, it seems that all video text has not
necessarily been given the attention needed in relationship to analysis and the teaching of analysis in classrooms. In a world that is quickly becoming largely visual it seems important to
include analysis of such texts in the system of education. As one author notes, "some observers predict cinema and TV will disappear into an omnipresent video culture of the future"
(Mayer 71). With this in mind the following paper examines and discusses an essay by Robert Scholes, On Reading a Video Text and his theories concerning the analysis of video
text. The Importance of Analyzing Video Text The question being posed by the student requesting this paper is why does Scholes feel it is important that people have
the ability to recognize, analyze, and evaluate the messages that are being presented, both explicitly and implicitly, in video text. This can perhaps be seen in the following statement by
Scholes: "At a time when critics such as William Bennett and E. D. Hirsch are bewailing our ignorance of culture, it is important to realize that many Americans are not
without culture; they simply have a different culture from that of Bennett and Hirsch. What they really lack, for the most part, is any way of analyzing and criticizing the
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