Media A-Level - Academic Theories

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Semiotics is the study of what?

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signs

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What does Claude Levi-Strauss suggest that media products use to explain and categorize the world around us?

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binary opposites

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Which of the following is not a stage in Todorov's narrative structure: equilibrium, exposition, disruption, repair?

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exposition

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Which of the following is NOT one of Propp's characters? princess, donor, false hero, victim

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victim

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Who said the genres are not fixed but are subject to constant change?

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Steve Neale

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Who said that intertextuality is a common feature of the post-modern age?

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Jean Baudrillard

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Who said that stereotypes reduce social groups to a few key-traits which demonise groups in a manner which both reflects and reinforces social hierarchies?

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Stuart Hall (Representation Theory)

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Paul Gilroy said that black communities are often ___________ in the media.

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demonised

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What does Paul Gilroy say that British people are ashamed of?

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The loss of the British Empire and our colonial past

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Van Zoonen says that the female body is seen as what?

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object