David Gauntlett: Identity and Billie Eilish
Develop your understanding of the key concepts in identity by analysing this magazine cover featuring Billie Eilish.| Media Studies
Develop your understanding of the key concepts in identity by analysing this magazine cover featuring Billie Eilish.| Media Studies
Explore the bardic function of television and how broadcasts reflect and reinforce culture through the messages communicated to the audience.| Media Studies
The best way to develop your understanding of the representation of masculinity is to analyse a variety of media texts.| Media Studies
A guide to Alison Bechdel's test and her measurement of the representation of women in mainstream films, including definition and examples.| Media Studies
An introduction to Liesbet Van Zoonen's influential review of liberal, radical and socialist feminist discourse.| Media Studies
Learn how we use stereotypes to help shape our own identity with our guide to this important social theory.| Media Studies
The Uses and Gratifications Theory attempts to explain why we deliberately choose to engage with certain texts and the gratifications they provide.| Media Studies
An introduction to one of cinema’s most popular and enduring genres, including analysis of its iconography and filmmaking techniques.| Media Studies
Find out more about the important structuralist theory of binary opposition with our definition and examples from the media.| Media Studies
Get some exam practice and develop your understanding of Barthes' signification process and the key concept of myth.| Media Studies
Our introduction to this key concept will develop your understanding of how signs are used in media texts to construct meaning.| Media Studies
With examples and practice questions, our guide to Barthes sign systems, including myth, will help develop your awareness of this key concept.| Media Studies
