A-level Media Studies - Handbook

Component One

• Introduction to Media Studies: Media Language, Representation, Industry, and Audience – establishing a theoretical framework for analysis. Roland Barthes Semiotics, Line of Duty.

  
  

• Music Video: History of Music Video, Conventions of Music Video, MTV and New Pop, Vance Joy, Beyonce, Bell Hooks, Laura Mulvey.

• Explorations: Black Lives Matters, Slave Trade,  Western Genre, Wes Anderson, Intertextuality, Eisenstein and Montage, French New Wave.

• Revising Music Video Case Studies

  
  

• Advertising: History of Advertising, Postmodernism, Kiss of the Vampire, Tide, Super.Human, Van Zoonen, Gauntlett.

• Explorations: Arrival, Paralympics, Hammer Horror, The Fifties and Sixties,

• Revising Advertising

  
  

• Film Marketing: Black American Cinema. Marvel  Universe, Black Panther, Social Realism, I Daniel Blake, David Hesmondhalgh, Curran and Seaton

• Explorations: Afrofuturism, Harlem Renaissance and Black Panthers, Oscars So White, Universal Credit, The BFI.

• Revising Film Marketing

  
  

• Video Games: Assassins Creed, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Bandura.

• Explorations: History of Video Games,

• Revising Assassin's Creed

  
  

• Radio: History of Radio, Woman's Hour, Judith Butler,

• Explorations: Public Service Broadcasting, Middle England,

• Revising Woman's Hour

  
  

• Newspapers: History of Newspapers. The Mirror, The Times

• Explorations: Partygate, Leveson Enquiry, Political Satire

• Revising Newspapers

Component Two

• Television Drama: History of Television Drama, The Bridge, Peaky Blinders, Steve Neale, Levi Strauss, Todorov, 

• Explorations: Nordic Noir, Scandinavian Culture, Film Noir, World War One, Period Drama

• Revising Television Drama

  
  

• Magazines: History of Magazine, Magazine Conventions, Vogue, Big Issue, Uses and Gratifications

• Explorations: The 1960s, , Fonts and Lettering, Grayson Perry, Cultural Institutions.

• Revising Magazines

• Online Media: The Rise of Celebrity Bloggers, Internet and YouTube, Zoella and Attitude

• Explorations: AIDS Crisis in 1980s, LGBTQ+ History, What is Trending?

• Revising Online Media