Music Videos and Genre
A semiotic approach to understanding the differences between performance, narrative, and concept music video genres.| Media Studies
A semiotic approach to understanding the differences between performance, narrative, and concept music video genres.| Media Studies
Get some exam practice and develop your understanding of the key concepts in Barthes' sign theory: denotation and connotation.| Media Studies
Develop your understanding of Louis Hjelmslev’s sign theory, including examples illustrating content, expression, content and substance.| Media Studies
Get some exam practice and develop your understanding of Tzvetan Todorov's theory of equilibrium and disequilibrium.| Media Studies
Neale defined genres as systems of orientations, expectations and conventions that circulate between industry, text and subject.| Media Studies
Explore the science of language and how meaning is determined by the relationships between signs in our guide to langue and parole.| Media Studies
Develop your understanding of Charles Peirce's sign categories (icons, symbols and indexes) with out worked examples from various media texts.| Media Studies
Learn more about the structuralist approach to understanding media texts with our introduction to this important concept.| Media Studies
Develop your understanding of how editors influence the audience’s interpretation of cinema with our introduction to the Kuleshov effect.| Media Studies
Find out more about the codes and conventions of different media forms.| Media Studies
Easy to understand definition and examples of key intertextuality concepts: homage, parody, satire, pastiche, and Easter eggs.| Media Studies
Explore how filmmakers use signs to construct meanings with our introduction to this important concept in photography and filmmaking.| Media Studies
Get some exam practice and develop your understanding of Barthes' signification process and the key concept of myth.| Media Studies
An introduction to how signs derive their meaning from their relationship to other signs in a language system, or code.| 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
Definitions and examples of Roland Barthes' two fundamental themes of photography (the studium and punctum) from Camera Lucida.| Media Studies
