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 Eduqas textbook as a basis for the PPT
**New 2021 Black Panther & Newspaper Cover Slides Added 252 slides
**
CONTENTS:
Advertising: Audiences, Tide and WaterAid
Demographics
Tide- historical context
Tide- target audience
Tide- social and cultural context
Gerbner- Cultivation Theory
Stuart Hall’s reception theory applied to Tide
WaterAid- background info, social and cultural contexts
The Film Industry: Straight Outta Compton
Mainstream, High-Concept Films versus Independent films
The film Industry
Regulation- BBFC
Straight Outta Compton: Industry
SOC: marketing: online, trailers, posters
SOC contexts
Black Panther slides
I, Daniel Blake- industry context
BBC Films, eOne
I, DB trailer
Newspapers: The Daily Mirror and The Times
Right Wing v Left wing
Criteria for selecting the news- news values, news agenda
Newspaper industry regulation
Set text: The Daily Mirror- annotate front cover, inside the newspaper, how newspapers target and attract audiences.
Applying Gerber’s Cultivation Theory to the Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror Contexts- social, political. Economical, influencers
Newspapers Codes and Conventions recap
The Times
Semiotics- Barthes, semiotic analysis of The Times cover
The Newspaper Industry
Who own the press?
Social and cultural change
Citizen journalism
Curran and Seaton
The Leveson Enquiry, IPSO, press regulation
IPSO & Impress
Hacked off campaign
Livingstone & Lunt
Set pages from the set texts
The Daily Mail
The Times
Who reads The Times?
The digital newspaper audience
The Times letters page
Times 2 Lifestyle supplement
Hard and soft news
The Times website and TV ads
Hesmondhalgh