A2 Media Theories

You will need to self-audit what you know and what you do not know:

A2 Media Theories

Genre: Daniel Chandler

               Ideology of Genre

Narrative: Todorov’s theory of Equilibrium and Disequilibrium

                     Roland Barthes’ Narrative Codes

                     Vladamir Propp

                     Levi-Strauss

Representation: Queer Theory: Judith Butler

                                Feminism: Laura Mulvey

                                Hegemony

                                Pluralism

                                Semiotics

                                Steve Neale: Masculinity in Crisis

                                Alvarado et al: Racial Representations

                                Richard Dyer: Star Theory

Audience: Blumler and Katz’s Uses and Gratification Theory

                     Cohen’s Moral Panic

                     Hypodermic Needle Model

                     Katz and Lasarfeld Two Step Flow

                     Reception Theory

                     Marxism

                     Look also at www.uktribes.com

Media Language: Semiotics: Barthes

                                  Ideology

                                  Foulcault’s Post Structuralism

                                  Louis Althusser: Interpellation

                                  Post-Colonialism