Inception - Active Audience Theory

Hall (1980) encoding/decoding model

Preferred reading - As the majority of the audience were white males, and the majority of the protagonists were white males, the story of Inception may have been easier to accept for them as they could relate to the characters on screen (the Ideal Self theory, the audience wants to do be the characters)/ not have (as many) prejudices against the characters. Other audience demographics may have found the film harder to be interested in, however, males and females may have enjoyed the film due to the Ideal Self/Partner theory, regardless of race, age etc.