WJEC/Eduqas A Level Media Studies Component 2 Section B Magazines THE BIG ISSUE & VOGUE (130 slides)

PLEASE NOTE:
I have used the Eduqas textbook as a basis for a PPT.

Slides included relate to:

Defining magazines as a media form
Masthead connotations
Language conventions in Harper’s Bazaar
Women’s Lifestyle magazines-codes and conventions
Vogue basic analysis
WIRED and ELLE codes and conventions analysis
The main functions of a magazine front cover
Semiotic analysis of magazines
Paradigms and Syntagms- applied to Elle and Vogue
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