Exam Board lecture

News

4 questions for news

Q2- 15 markers:

  • representations of 'reality'
  • viewpoints and ideology
  • genre conventions
  • usually Daily mail/ Guardian but could be anything
  • can be websites
  • usually The Sun will have Van Zoonen theory of objectifying women applied
  • Daily Telegraph has high ratio of copy to images
  • The Times is a populist broadsheet with a more balanced ratio of copy to images
  • The Guardian is funded by donations with a younger ABC1 educated audience
  • 3 paragraphs
  • the I has a vertical masthead which is unconventional
  • Stuart Hall is a go to theorist for preferred readings and dominant ideology(a good start), Gerbner's cultivation theory is also relevant
  • lower priced tabloid that targets a younger reader could also be a mid-market
  • Steve Neale- repetition and difference of genres  and being blended together
  • David Gauntlet's representations pick and mix theory of audiences will pick and mix different interpretations and representations
  • Any theorist can show up in question 1
  1. Gender- van Zoonen, bell Hooks
  2. Race- Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy or Bell Hooks
  3. National identity- Gerbner
  4. performing gender roles- Judith Butler
  5. Political representations and representations of reality- Gerbner and Strauss
Example question
The Daily Mail keep the Jewish march present with a story about the royal family that the right wing audience will appeal to while the I focuses on the taxes and election

Long Form Tv Drama

  • Stranger Things-focused on commercial success
  • Forbrydelsen-Focused on critical success
  • Scandinavian countries have more progressive ideologies shown in Sarah Lund who is a feminist character
  • 1980s political ideologies reflected in Mike's nuclear family
  • Forbrydelsen has more complex plot than Stranger Things
  • Thiess, Hartman and the mayor represent toxic masculinity
  • Brenner represents toxic masculinity for Stranger Things
  • Benny is the only competent adult in the episode by helping Eleven and is punished and killed for it
  • Forbrydelsen has a duller colour scheme to The Killing
  • Forbrydelsen has on location filming and no star marketing, strong female protagonist
  • The Killing political ideologies
    • promoting Scandinavian liberalism
    • toxic masculinity and corruption
    • bleak view of humanity offset by importance of family values
  • 30 marker means at least 3 theorists
  • Wheeler house- middle class, small town, sleepy, suburban

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