Media Language

Question 1

paradigm

Answer 1

eg. camera

the thing that can be changed without effecting the masterplot

Question 2

syntagm

Answer 2

eg. camera angle

the change made that affects the master plot

Question 3

diegesis

Answer 3

what it would feel like to be the character, if it were reality

Question 4

quest narrative

Answer 4

the author describes his/her desire to do something

Question 5

causality

Answer 5

causes events to follow stories with a beginning, middle and end

Question 6

bricolage

Answer 6

DIY process where you make something from existing products. meanings become lost from so many intertextual references

Question 7

pastiche

Answer 7

an imitation of other pieces of media in an honouring way

Question 8

intertextuality

Answer 8

1 media text is references in another media text

Question 9

implosion

Answer 9

“getting information from the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant”

Question 10

Barthes

Answer 10

semiotics theorist

(read signs) eg. signification, denotation, myth, connotation

Question 11

Todorov

Answer 11

narrative theorist

equilibrium, disruption, new equilibrium

Question 12

Neale

Answer 12

genre theorist. genres of order and integration. genres as a cultural category (reflect dominant ideologies) His theory of repetition and difference (conventions which make up a genre)

conventions, sub-grenre, hybridity

Question 13

Levi-Strauss

Answer 13

Narrative theorist, binary oppositions

Question 14

Baudrillard (simulation)

Answer 14

the creation of representation that imitate something from real life

Question 15

Baudrillard (hyperreality)

Answer 15

where media representations become indistinguishable from reality

Question 16

Baudrillard (simulacra)

Answer 16

where the representation itself becomes the reality eg. painting of jesus (who never existed)