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"Hilary Clinton Sopranos Spoof"
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The Clinton Sopranos parody proves a rich text for rhetorical analysis largely because of its intertextual nature. Certainly, analyzing the video in and of itself offers audiences productive practice in reading the text as text. That is, audiences who are unfamiliar with the original Sopranos episode can still analyze the video as a set of signs that carry particular meanings.
However, because the Clinton video functions as a parody of the original Sopranos episode, analyzing the Clinton video in terms of the Sopranos creates a more complex and productive reading, one that demonstrates that texts don't simply have meanings on different levels. Instead, the various meanings collide, coexist, challenge, even redefine one another.
Hillary Clinton Sopranos Spoof
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The Sopranos Final Scene
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