Media Language Flashcards
1
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Steve Neale - Genre Theory
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- Repetition and difference within genre
- Makes it so genres constantly are evolving
2
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Roland Barthes - Semiotics
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- All elements of media texts are built up from codes that are intended to be read
- These can be understood in a denotative (Prominent meaning) and Conative (Inferred meaning)
3
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Jean Baurdillard - Semiotics
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- The difference between created texts and reality are becoming Blurred.
4
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Claude Levi- Strauss Binary Opposition
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- Media texts are built upon opposites
- The conflict between the two drive forward the narrative
5
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Tzvetan Todorov - Narratology
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- Equilibrium
- Disruption
- Recognition
- Resolution
- New equilibrium
