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
Please note- I have used the exam board factsheet as a basis to create a unit of work on PPT.
The PPT covers:
Contexts- product context, the games, video game historical context, appeal of video games and Assassin’s Creed
Economic context- production distribution, circulation,
Industries-regulation, PEGI, digital convergence
Audiences- social and cultural contexts, audience experience
Theorists- Stuart Hall, Power and media industries (including Curran and Seaton), Regulation (including Livingstone and Lunt, Cultural Industries (including Hesmondhalgh), Blumler and Katz, Bandura, Henry Jenkins, Stanley Cohen
Exam question examples