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Comunicar Journal 31: To teach the look. Some proposals to teach watching TV (Vol. 16 - 2008)

Transverse readings: how to build critical audiences

https://doi.org/10.3916/c31-2008-01-003

Luz-Rugenia Aguilar-González

Abstract

The main point in this article is to discuss the development of the critical reception. The method establishes an analysis of the codes and cultural sources of a specific television show, (that analysis understood as transverse readings), to identify the intertextualities in the show. The purpose is to develop the intertextual competence and the critical vision of the children. The main goal is to make children acquire a critical capacity that enables them to criticize the consumption, the rejection or the interpretation of different television shows.

Keywords

Intertextual competence, intertextuality, critics’ reception, type of readers, transverse readings