A-Level Media Studies
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Film studies
Television
Television in the global age
Black Mirror
(2024+)
Initial analytic discussion (2023)
San Junipero - negotiated readings
A semiotic deconstruction of San Junipero's opening montage
Exploring how media language combines to construct meaning in the opening montage sequence of San Junipero
Postmodern readings - Hyperreality and the opening montage of San Junipero
Postmodern readings - hyperreality and the ‘crossing over’ scene in San Junipero
Hyperreality, gender performativity and the sex scene in San Junipero
Hyperreality, gender performativity and the marriage scene in San Junipero
Exploring gender performance and gender performativity in San Junipero
Building representation and media language case studies in San Junipero
Black Mirror and the 'cult' of Charlie Brooker - wider reading and taking audience way further
Industry research megatask
Cult TV
Teacher exemplar
Postmodernism - how to actually refer to the hardest theory in media studies
Representation, media language and representation - TV industry ultrapost
Les Revenants
(2019 +)
Considering genre in
Les Revenants
Researching
Les Revenants
Les Revenants
initial discussion 2022
Les Revenants - initial discussion, including narrative applications
Utiliser uniquement la théorie française pour analyser une émission de télévision française
Les Revenants: atypical of genre, typical of representation?
The representation of teenage girls in
Les Revenants
Representations of age and gender: Lena and Simon walk home
Subverting representations of women - Julie
bell hooks and Les Revenants
Reception theory - audience negotiation and
Les Revenants
How does Les Revenants appeal to an international audience?
Cultivating polysemy - audience negotiation and the final montage of episode 1 of Les Revenants
Audience responses to
Les Revenants
Explore how ownership shapes media products. Make reference to The Returned to support your response
The television industry is a specialised industry. Explore how The Returned is a product of a specialised industry
Les Revenants: what makes a cult show?
Les Revenants: structuring a response
Les Revenants: in-depth key scene analysis
TV mini mock: exemplar answers
Stuart Hall argues that stereotypes serve a variety of complex functions and are integral to understanding media products. Evaluate this theory of representation. Make reference to Humans and The Returned to support your response [30]
According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, texts convey their meanings through a system of binary oppositions. Evaluate this structuralist theory. Refer to the set episodes of Humans and The Returned in your response. [30]
Compared with the past, David Gauntlett argues that in the media today ‘we no longer get singular, straightforward messages about ideal types of male and female identities.’ Evaluate the validity of this claim with reference to the set episodes of Humans and The Returned and the historical contexts in which they were produced. [30]
Industry and audience discussion 1
Industry and audience discussion 2
Industry research megatask
Cult TV
Teacher exemplar
Representation, media language and representation - TV industry ultrapost
Wider reading and additional examples
Parks and Recreation
Exploring how representations construct reality in the opening sequence of CSI Vegas
Legacy case studies
Humans
(2019 -2023)
Opening scene analysis: to what extent is
Humans
typical of it's genre?
Brothel scene analysis: how are the audience positioned through media language, and how does the scene demonstrate themes of sexual exploitation?
Exploring the diegesis of sound in the opening scene of
Humans
Applying structuralist theory to
Humans
Applying semiotic theory to
Humans
Commodity fetishism and sexual fetishism: how is Anita fetishised through media language?
Gender performativity,
Humans
and cyborgs
Applying postmodern theory to
Humans
Exploring
Human's
marketing campaign
Considering the marketing campaign for Humans within an economic context
Applying reception theory to the ending montage
Humans
facts
Life imitating art: delivery robots
Exploring how representations of gender are encoded in the final montage sequence of Humans S1E1
Hyperreality and simulacrum in Humans and beyond
Analysis of a viral marketing strategy: Persona Synthetics spot advertisement
Humans: Exploring audience theory
TV mini mock: exemplar answers
Hyperreality and Humans
Explore the ways in which audiences can respond to and interpret the representations of gender in Humans
How does historical context affect the representations in Humans?
Applying representation theories to Humans
How have economic factors shaped Humans?
In what ways does the TV industry use specialised forms of distribution?
Stuart Hall argues that stereotypes serve a variety of complex functions and are integral to understanding media products. Evaluate this theory of representation. Make reference to Humans and The Returned to support your response [30]
According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, texts convey their meanings through a system of binary oppositions. Evaluate this structuralist theory. Refer to the set episodes of Humans and The Returned in your response. [30]
Compared with the past, David Gauntlett argues that in the media today ‘we no longer get singular, straightforward messages about ideal types of male and female identities.’ Evaluate the validity of this claim with reference to the set episodes of Humans and The Returned and the historical contexts in which they were produced. [30]
Industry and audience discussion 1
Industry and audience discussion 2
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