Media A-Level - Academic Theories

Gauntlett says that the media helps audiences to make choices about their _________

• media consumption

• censorship

• gender

• identity

Semiotics is the study of what?

• narratology

• signs

• genre

• post-modernism

According to post-modern theory, _________ media dominates culture

• niche

• new

• mass

• social

According to Curran and Seaton, media industries follow the normal ___________ pattern of increasing concentration of ownership in fewer and fewer hands

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

• 7 character types

• representations

• binary opposites

• mise-en-scene

Which of the following is not a stage in Todorov's narrative structure

• equilibrium

• exposition

• disruption

• repair

According to Livingstone and Lunt, the regulation of the media is

• easy and essential

• an unnecessary waste of time

• challenging and difficult

• a waste of money

According to Baudrillard, intertextuality is a feature of

• post-modernism

• modernism

• media language

• LFTVD

Stuart Hall's reception theory states that audiences can interpret media texts in three different ways:

• dominant, negotiated or oppositional

• agree, partially agree or disagree

• confront, accept or deny

• offend, complain or enjy

Which of the following is NOT one of Propp's characters?

• princess

• donor

• false hero

• victim