Noakes, Susan (1993) "Gracious words: Luke's Jesus and the reading of sacred poetry at the beginning of the Christian era" in The ethnography of reading (ed.) Jonathan Boyanin: 38-57. California: University of California Press

​The regional and/or social linguistic variety serves as an "erasure" to the problem the films raise. The problem is very much there, but the use of unidentified code will put a veil on it for the audience. Audience does see the problem but cannot associate itself with it due to the code. Thus, presented problem remains absent for the target.

Every text, at the same time, a complete as well as incomplete text. Incomplete text is completed by the authoritative reader who 'knows' everything. While complete texts invites the ordinary reader to study it; here, the reader is incomplete.​