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[edit] What is central about Rambo? shooting North Vietnamese soldiers or shooting American computers (and threatening to shoot the head of the local CIA operation)?
[edit] What is the role of the text (in its structure) in limiting interpretation as well as in opening the way to certain other interpretations.
[edit] What is the role of the "dominant" (hegemonic) interpretations of particular text (e.g. the "American" interpretation of Rambo as a 'right wing' movie)?
Although I am not familiar with Rambo, I am familiar with modern middle class liberal sense that Regan's presidency was and is, for some reason, funny. He refused to eat broccoli. He threw up on a head of state. He was the straight man to a chimp (in "Bedtime for Bonzo" 1951). The hegemony, or the representative thereof, often serves as a laughing stock for those who have opposing beliefs. Perhaps Regan's emphatic enjoyment of Rambo as a Pro-US film actually encouraged others to take a totally opposite view, hence setting up another reason to ridicule him.--Kkeenan 14:42, 15 February 2007 (EST)
[edit] How would you justify any of these answers?
[edit] Using a recent controversy in what some call the "culture wars" (e.g. the brouhaha around the recent exhibition at the Brooklyn museum), sort out who might be resisting whom or what.
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