Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Les Revenants - making a question

Les Revenantsc'est toujours tres mystérieux...
In order to be completely familiar with the exam structure, the best course of action sometimes is to make your own questions. 

Below, we have every question that could come up for Les Revenants if the focus is on media language (the other four potential areas are representation, industry and audience). These are not secret, and every potential question can be found in the media studies revision guide.

However, the exam will take these question 'nuggets' and spruce them up. So you need to reword them. Have a go at rewording three of the below questions, maybe including reference to a theory, maybe including reference to Les Revenants, and we'll pick one of yours for a class analysis.

  • What media language is associated with this product? And how does it create multiple meanings?
  • How does media language combine to create meaning?
  • What are the genre conventions of this product, how do they work, and how have they developed?
  • What is the historical context of the genre? How has it shifted over time?
  • How do audiences respond to and interpret all the stuff above?
  • How do the genre conventions of this product reflect the sociohistorical context, and how does it use genre hybridity?
  • In what ways does this product use media language to encode the ideology of the producer?