Judging a Book by its Cover

In Anne Frances Wysocki’s article titled “The Multiple Media of Text: How Onscreen and paper Texts Incorporate Word, Images, and Other Media” I have a pretty large understanding of how interpreting texts at face value is a trait that everyone already has. Just like almost everyone of my previous blog posts I am going to relate this to my film knowledge. Last semester in my class Film in America we went over genre and the professor spoke of how an audience can recognize a movies genre without actually seeing the whole. In example if you see an arid desert and a man riding a horse in the distance you can logically and make an educated prediction that the movie you are watching is a western movie. And on the other side of the spectrum if you see a spaceships and laser beams you would be able to say the movie Is a science fiction without much doubt in your mind. If continuing on this idea of film and being able to understand its genre it is something that we as the viewers have come to understand because there are certain themes to these films that separate it from others. In writing there are different types of writing and you can also tell by the way it appears. I think it is very interesting and it never stops amazing me that people the human brain is so smart that little things such as hearing the sound of a jazz band and seeing a man in a suit in a movie can let you think that the movie takes place in the twenties from nothing else but that.

I think that people need to understand how to guess what a certain media is without taking the time to fully watch or read it because it helps people have a much heavier grasp on other things that are used in life. Such as recognizing literary devices in your paper will help you understand writing better and can further your own writing as well. People always say that judging a book by its cover is bad but when it comes down to it recognizing similarities that things have can help you understand the world in new ways.