Mary Carlin-
Mothers discourse- “doesn’t take other peoples crap”
Grew up as the daughter of a policeman
Police seen as pillars of society, prestigious.
She tried to distance herself from the “other” Irish
worried about her image being damaged
George-
– Related more with father in the end
– wanted to make his own success
– ended up bei
George’s father
-speaker, father, alcoholic,
-alcoholism conflicted with his other roles in life
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Nuns
– “Speaker of god”
– tenements of religion- not giving things more power that they should have i.e the seven words.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Questions for Film:
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What Discourses would you say Theirry is a part of?
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How does one gain membership into a new Discourse? Or, how does one get recognized as a new type of “who” doing a new type of “what” through Discourse?
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How does one’s Primary Discourse influence the “who” they become in a Secondary Discourse?
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Do any of Theirry’s Discourses conflict with one another? If so, how?
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1. Theirry would be considered to be a Frenchman, an eccentric, Cameraman, salesman,
2. By becoming active within a Discourse, putting yourself around others who share similar, or the same sort of Discourse. You become a new discourse simply by innovating, doing something that none or few people have done. In Thierry’s case, it involved being an innovator within the street art scene, when the internet was becoming successful, he was recording the actions of the street artists. He was
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