Media Theory for A Level

The Essential Revision Guide
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-42102-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 315 g

Media Theory for A Level provides a comprehensive introduction to the 19 academic theories required for A Level Media study.

From Roland Barthes to Clay Shirky, from structuralism to civilisationism, this revision book explains all the core academic concepts students need to master to succeed in their exams. Each chapter contains comprehensive explanations of the academic ideas and theories specified for GCE Media study as well as practical tasks, higher level ‘challenge activities’, glossaries, reference tables and revision summaries.

The second edition of this best-selling guide features:

- Updated and revised chapters and exemplars, reflecting the new A Level Media specification (AQA, Eduqas, OCR and WJEC).

- Overviews of core areas and potential approaches that could be taken in exam responses.

- Overviews of secondary theory that can be used in responses.

This book is key reading for teachers and students of A Level Media Studies and is also a useful resource for GCSE students.

Media Theory for A Level is accompanied by the www.essentialmediatheory.com website that contains a wide range of supporting resources including revision flashcards, worksheets and more exemplar applications of theory to current set texts.

Zielgruppe

AS/A2 and Further/Vocational Education

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixon, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Media language

1. Semiotics: Roland Barthes Concept 1: Denotation and connotation Concept 2: The media’s ideological effect

2. Structuralism: Claude Lévi-Strauss Concept 1:Binary oppositions Concept 2: Binary oppositions and ideological significance

3. Narratology: Tzvetan Todorov Concept 1: The three-act ideal Concept 2: The ideological effects of story structure

4. Genre theory: Steve Neale Concept 1: Repetition and difference Concept 2: Industry effects on genre-driven content

5. Postmodernism: Jean Baudrillard Key concept: The real and the hyperreal

Media representation

6. Representation: Stuart Hall Concept 1: Media representation processes Concept 2: Stereotypes and power

7. Postcolonial theory: Paul Gilroy Concept 1: Racial binaries, otherness and civilisationism Concept 2: The legacy of empire and British identity

8. Feminist theory: Liesbet van Zoonen Concept 1: The female body as spectacle Concept 2: Masculinity in the media

9. Intersectionality: bell hooks Concept 1: Interconnected oppression Concept 2: hooks’ call to action

10. Gender as performance: Judith Butler Concept 1: Gendered identities are constructed through repetition and ritual Concept 2: Gender subversion and gendered hierarchies

11. Media and identity: David Gauntlett Concept 1: Traditional and post-traditional media consumption Concept 2: Reflexive identity construction

Media industries

12. Ownership effects: James Curran and Jean Seaton Concept 1: Media concentration Concept 2: Effects of concentration on media content Concept 3: Diverse ownership creates diverse products

13. Regulation: Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt Concept 1: Citizen and consumer models of media regulation Concept 2: Regulation in the globalised media age

14. The culture industry: David Hesmondhalgh Concept 1: Maximising profits and minimising risks Concept 2: The effects of the internet revolution are difficult to diagnose

Media audiences

15. Media modelling effects: Albert Bandura Concept 1: Violent behaviours are learned through modelling Concept 2: Audiences copy media modelling

16. Cultivation theory: George Gerbner Concept 1: Fear cultivation Concept 2: Media consumption leads audiences to accept mainstream ideologies

17. Reception theory: Stuart Hall Concept 1: Encoding and decoding Concept 2: Dominant, negotiated and oppositional decoding

18. Fandom: Henry Jenkins Concept 1: Fan appropriation Concept 2: Audience–producer convergence in the digital age

Concept 3: Fans use participatory culture to effect wider social change

19. The end of audience: Clay Shirky Concept 1: Everybody makes the media Concept 2: Everyday communities of practice

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Dixon is an Eduqas A Level examiner and Head of Media and Film at Durham Sixth Form Centre. He is also a freelance author, and has written for The Guardian, TES, Media Magazine and Teach Secondary as well as authoring a range of digital resources for Eduqas Media.