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A Level Specification: Module 4
Texts and Contexts in the Media
Using a range of contemporary and historical media texts as a basis,
students will study two from a choice of four media topics:
The following materials are adapted from the AQA
Exam board A Level Specification.
The topics you will study in this module have been chosen because
- they are major areas of study within Media Studies
- they embody a range of approaches to the subject
- they cover a variety of texts, practices and issues
- each has an internal coherence. Each possesses its own history, discourses,
debates and supportive literature.
A crucial difference between AS Level and your A2 year is the study of
economic, social, political and historical contexts.
At Sandringham, we study the topics of Genre and Representations.
Genre (Horror)
- Codes, conventions, iconography and themes of one genre from any medium
or media.
- Detailed study of a range of modern and historical texts in a chosen
genre. Historical development of the genre (via textual study rather
than potted history).
- Social, economic and political contexts of a genre. Reasons for any
rise and fall in its popularity.
- Recent developments in genre; parody and pastiche; playing with generic
conventions; mixing genres.
Representations
- Two detailed studies of the images of particular groups or places
across a range of media.
- Alternative images of these groups or places across the media.
- General issues of representation and stereotyping within the media.
- Problems of producing fair and accurate media representations.
- Representation and power in the media.
- Reasons for dominant representations (e.g. historic, economic, social,
political etc).
See the growing section on Horror for more information.
AO1: Knowledge and application of Key Concepts (2½%)
Students will need to go beyond a textual study and consider in addition,
the wider contextual forces which shape media texts. The concepts of institution
and ideology will play a more important role here than they did in the
AS modules.
AO2: Knowledge and application of wider contexts (7½%)
AO3i: Knowledge, application and evaluation of relevant major ideas,
theories, debates and information (5%)
This objective is tested in relation to both media
texts, and the wider contextual forces which have shaped them.
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