When looking into the messages that contemporary texts of Pop culture suggest, we may find that the message received by the viewer isn't always the message intended by the author. According to Umberto Eco, popular texts can ... even double read by it's receiving audience. An example of this misreading comes from Andy Medhurst, and how he found that the TV show "Batman" had underlying homosexual themes. The authors did not intend for the message to suggest these underlying themes, yet Medhurst received the message from a very different point of view. While Medhurst's opinion of the show may b...

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... norms of the period. Ill-treatment of the governess had become a topic for wide debate amongst the educated classes during the 1840s, with many authors pleading for her status as a lady to be more respected by employers. No contemporary author I've ever come access argued that the governess was not a lady, despite being well aware of the poverty in which most of ... ...

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