Develop your understanding of the key concepts in identity by analysing this magazine cover featuring Billie Eilish.| 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
Learn about how moral entrepreneurs exaggerate the threat posed by groups of people and label them as folk devils and create a moral panic.| Media Studies
Introduction to Gauntlett's ideas on the representation of gender and identity in the media - fluid, constructed, negotiated and collective.| Media Studies
An introduction to Liesbet Van Zoonen's influential review of liberal, radical and socialist feminist discourse.| Media Studies
Explore Mulvey's influential film theory which describes how women are reduced to objects for the gaze of the protagonist and male audience.| Media Studies
Explore how gender is determined by society and our performance of those roles with our guide to Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble".| Media Studies
An introduction to the methods news organisations use to frame a story and influence the audience's opinion of important issues.| Media Studies
To what extent does mass media influence the audience and set the news agenda by controlling which stories should hit the headlines?| Media Studies
Find out more about the important structuralist theory of binary opposition with our definition and examples from the media.| Media Studies