Academic survey seeks opinions about The Hobbit: AUJ - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

William Cloud Hicklin · 02-08-2013, 06:14 PM

However, reading the paper by the same people that resulted from a similar study of the movie Avatar a few years ago, this isn't really about the movie but about the viewers. Copious postmodern-sociology polysyllabic handwaving.

Bêthberry · 02-08-2013, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

this isn't really about the movie but about the viewers.

Look at their academic disciplines. Look at the title of the survey. Why expect anything different?

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Copious postmodern-sociology polysyllabic handwaving.

Hardly copious. The paper is surprisingly free of sociological claptrap, especially given that the authors are arguing for a particular methodology rather than presenting their results of the Avatar survey.

For those interested, the paper can be found here.

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William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	However, reading the paper by the same people that resulted from a similar study of the movie Avatar a few years ago, this isn't really about the movie but about the viewers. Copious postmodern-sociology polysyllabic handwaving. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.