Genres Web Paper 4

 

 

Persepolis – A Radio Play

Story and Dialogue by Marjane Sartrapi

Reinterpreted for Radio by Arielle Seidman

 

This scene includes the following characters, all of whom are carefully voiced by different actors;

 

SARTRAPI – the narrator. She is a confident-sounding, middle-aged alto.

MARJI – The young protagonist. She is an eager-voiced child.

FATHER – Marji’s father. He is a middle-aged man with a versatile baritone speaking voice, able to portray both sharpness and gentleness without losing coherency.

 

"The medium is the message"

  because it is the

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Written text has been conveyed through many different means over the course of civilization, no matter the era or region.  Stone tablets such as the Rosetta stone or on a stele, a tall column-like object, in the case of Hammurabi’s Code.  Due to their weight and bulk, however, stone was replaced with paper scrolls.  Books in Western Civilization were invention of the medieval period, out of necessity for Roman Catholic Christian scripture (Truitt). Prior to the widespread practice of Christianity, scrolls served the same function, allowing readers to start at the beginning, save their place mid-text, and read through to the end. For instance, in Judaism, practitioners read the religious text from beginning to end, and when they finished, they would start again. However, in Christianity, the services place the liturgy thematically rather than spatially, and it required a new method of storing that information so that priests could read scripture out of order. This new method, as previously stated, was the book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ

You are about to watch the “final” episode of House, M.D. Perhaps “watch” is not the best term to describe what you are about to do as you fix your eyes and attention on your computer screen—“read” might work a little better. But in the hope of transcending the boundaries of genre that define “watching a television show,” you might want to do the following:

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[this space represents the traditional academic paper which I am fully capable of writing, but which I simply could not be bothered to do.]

Spent a day trapped in my own head, relieved by one brief phone conversation, and no writing. It is extraordinarily difficult to care about tactics in academic writing, when one is so utterly self-centered. I’m in some kind of waiting room, metaphorically speaking, and only a very narrow slice of the rest of the world exists to me. Audience, what audience? The writer is alive and kicking (and crying, and going for walks at 3 am, and at 6 am, and spending whole days getting nothing accomplished, and playing with hot wax, and setting up a printer, and getting to the grocery store ten minutes before it closes, and fooling around with the Tarot, and

 

May 21, 2008

(The last line makes me laugh. No, no, don’t skip ahead. But speaking of genres. And if you don’t think it’s funny, it’s because of all the things you don’t know.)