Fight Club, Star Wars and American Psycho join in as the most notable films to have fanbases that have wildly different interpretations of the art that is… concerningly bad to say the least
Did you mean Starship Troopers? What do people disagree on with Star Wars?
And I'm generally of the opinion getting people to think for themselves by evoking radically different interpretations is one of the main purposes of art. If it can only ever be seen through a single lens you're not making good art - you're making boring propaganda.
Death of the artist has to the lamest movement that has ever graced the philospical space when it comes to media
It wouldnt even be remembered if it wasn’t for fanfic writers wanting to have legitimacy so in turn putting out video essays about how important death of the artist is and how actually your own interpretation of the art is actually what matters
If instead people realized that the creator was actually the God of their world and unless they specifically said they meant for you to interpret however you want it, then it has a specific meaning. We wouldn’t be inundated with a generation/s that has zero media literacy thanks to further video essays telling people their theories should actually be canon or having people get upset when their theories don’t come true
Death of the author has been an influential philosophy in literary criticism since the 70s. It's also not about how the author's intent is meaningless, or that you should separate the art from the artist. Those are pop culture simplifications of the theory. Instead, death of the author is better summed up as, "What the author was thinking or feeling when they wrote something is less important than what they actually wrote."
Since you mentioned fanfic, take 50 Shades of Grey as an example. The author felt, and has repeatedly stated, that she was writing a normal, healthy relationship between the main characters. Of course, thousands upon thousands of readers disagreed and saw the relationship as toxic and abusive.
By your logic, how E. L. James feels about the story she wrote is the only true interpretation of the text, and everyone that disagrees with her is wrong.
No, not how she feels, but what she intended. She can feel whatever she wants, that's not an objective thing. Let's use Birth of a Nation as an easy example. It is a movie about how the KKK are good and pure and how they're important to American identity. That's the intent. How you feel about that intent is for each to decide, but nobody gets to redefine the intent.
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u/Jiellyeum 23d ago edited 23d ago
Fight Club, Star Wars and American Psycho join in as the most notable films to have fanbases that have wildly different interpretations of the art that is… concerningly bad to say the least