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    Decoding Desire: From Kirk and Spock to K/S

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    Authors
    Woledge, Elizabeth
    Affiliation
    University of Chester
    Publication Date
    2005-08
    
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    Abstract
    This paper uses the example of 'slash fiction' (fan fiction which appropriates media heroes to form homoerotic pairings) to offer an investigation which broadens the concept of decoding. Slash fiction provides a particularly suitable starting point for considering the decoding process, as it is one of the few cases in which we have the evidence of decoding readily available for analysis in the form of fanzines. Many academics have considered Kirk and Spock's relationship as it was represented in Star Trek and the homoerotic 'K/S' fiction which it inspired, however no one has effectively considered the interpretive processes which connect them. The author questions the implicit belief that K/S fiction is an 'oppositional' decoding of Star Trek and demonstrate its more negotiated nature through a detailed consideration of the decoding process. To this end the author borrows an idea of David Morley's who has suggested that 'Hall's original model [of decoding] tends to blur together questions of recognition, comprehension, interpretation and response' (Morley 1994, 21). This paper will take up Morley's four process model of decoding and answer Jenkins' call for a closer analysis of the links between audience reception and texts (Jenkins 1996, 275).
    Citation
    Social Semiotics, 2005, 15(2), pp. 235-250
    Publisher
    Routledge
    Journal
    Social Semiotics
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10034/72093
    DOI
    10.1080/10350330500154857
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    http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713446841~link=cover
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    Article
    Language
    en
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    ISSN
    1035-0330
    1470-1219
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1080/10350330500154857
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