List of contents: TV Media language, codes and conventions Stock characters Repetition and difference in crime drama Narrative- Todorov Characters- Propp Binary oppositions- Levi Strauss Crime drama partnerships Iconography The crime drama in context Binary oppositions Post modern Challenging or subverting genre conventions Representation Feminism bell hooks Van Zoonen, Laura Mulvey The construction of gender through discourse Theories of gender performativity Representations of race and ethnicity Ethnocentrism, Otherness and Racial Stereotyping TV as a global industry The Bridge The Bridge: Economic factors Visual codes- media language revision The conventions of Nordic noir Cultural industries theory: David Hesmondhalgh TV formats and international remakes Regulation Theorists Livingstone and Lunt, Ofcom Regulation in a global age Advertising rules Audience readings and responses- demographic factors and identity Fandom: Henry Jenkins Unit Summary Essential theories for TV

51 slides A unit on the Daily Mirror for Component 1, Eduqas A Level Media Studies. Content covered: Media Language Representation Media Industries Audiences Media Contexts Website Politics Theorists: Levi-Strauss, Van Zoonen, Curran & Seaton, Livingstone & Lunt, Hesmondhalgh, Gerbner, Hall and Shirky.

A PPT on The Guardian, covering: Media Language Representations Contexts Politics Culture Brexit

PLEASE NOTE: I have used the Eduqas textbook as a basis for a PPT. The Archers GCSE Media Studies

PLEASE NOTE: I have used the Eduqas textbook and factsheet as a basis for a PPT. I have also added in content that I found useful when teaching this unit. Slides included relate to: Defining magazines as a media form Masthead connotations Language conventions Women’s Lifestyle magazines-codes and conventions Vogue basic analysis The main functions of a magazine front cover Semiotic analysis of magazines Paradigms and Syntagms- Inside the magazine- alley, gutter, white space, anchorage Magazine genres- women’s magazines, James Curran Representation Gauntlett’s Theory of Identity Domesticity and Gender Stereotypes in Women’s Magazines Betty Friedan Alternative representations-NOVA Representations of female beauty Representations of race, ethnicity and national identity Industry, economic control, horizontal integration Curran and Seaton IPC and vertical integration Conde Nast and advance publications Regulation Audience- Vogue Media Pack, NRS The Big Issue Front cover analysis The Big Issue genre hybridity Levi-Strauss- binary oppositions Gauntlett- representations of gender Feminist Theory: Liesbet Van Zoonen Race and under representation Industry- mainstream and alternative magazines Economic context Impact of technological change Digital distribution- Zinio Regulation- Livingstone and Lunt Power and Media Industries Theory: Curran and Seaton Audiences Marketing and Distribution Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory Hall’s Reception Theory Bulmer and Katz’s Uses and Gratifications Audience interaction Key theories