AS Media Studies : The Essential Introduction for WJEC

ISBN-13: 9780415613347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str.

Antony Bateman

Opis

This full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through their WJEC AS in Media Studies. Individual chapters cover the following key areas:

• Textual Analysis: Visual, Technical and Audio codes
• Textual Analysis: Narrative and Genre Codes
• Approaches to Representation
• Approaches to Audience Response
• Case Studies on Representation and Audience: Gender, Age, Ethnicity, Identity, Events and Issues
• Passing MS1: Media Representations and Receptions
• Production Work, Evaluation and report

Specially designed to be user-friendly, AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC includes activities, key terms, case studies and sample exam questions. It introduces the course, tackles useful approaches to study, key content covered in the specification, and guides the student in approaching and planning the exam and production work through analysis, prompts and activities.

Spis treści

@contents: Selected Contents: List of illustrations  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Aims and rationale  How to use this book  Part I  Chapter 1 Textual Analysis: Visual, Technical and Audio codes  Chapter 2 Textual Analysis: Narrative and Genre Codes  Chapter 3 Approaches to Representation  Chapter 4 Approaches to Audience Response  Part II  Chapter 5 Case Studies  Gender  Age  Ethnicity  Identity  Events  Issues  Chapter 6 Passing MS1: Media Representations and Receptions  Part III  Chapter 7 Production Work, Evaluation and report  Epilogue  Index