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In the film Erin Brockovich, a poor single-mother, Erin, begs for a job as a secretary. When she gets interested in a family's medical problems, she uncovers a huge cover-up from a company who knowingly contaminated the town's water. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history.
Research on audiences suggests that social positions affect interpretations. It acts as a central mediator of the interpretive process – not as a factor that influences the meaning but as a key provider of the resources we use to decode media message. A viewer's understanding of a film requires particular knowledge of the standards of the environment that is being portrayed in the film and the workings of the culture. The way a viewer gets meaning out of a film depends on assumptions about relationships, parents and children, and, as I would argue we see in Erin Brockovich, rich and the poor.
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