Media Language Theories

Question 1

What Key Ideas Behind Roland Bathes Semiotics Theory?

Answer 1

-Media Texts communicate their ideas through signification.
- Denotations and Connotations
- Media Texts use codes to create meaning,
-Cultural Codes
-Enigma Codes
-Semantic Codes
-Action Codes
-Symbolic Codes

Question 2

What Key Ideas Behind The

Question 3

What Key Ideas Behind Tzvetan Todorov Narratology Theory?

Answer 3

All narratives follow a very similar structure.
* Equilibrium
* Disruption
* Realization
* Resolution
* New Equilibrium
-Some Narratives Include a Disequilibrium that could be a imbalance or disruption.

Question 4

What Key Ideas Behind Steve Neale’s Genre Theory?

Answer 4

-Genre is not something static, as it is always evolves. This creates a Sub or Hybrid Genre.
-Genre is Developed through constant repetition and Differences.

Question 5

What Key Ideas Behind Claude Levi Strauss’s theory of Binary Opposites/Structuralism?