Thursday 20 September 2012

Key Terms 1


Important Key Terms:


Representation: Representation is the way that people, groups, cultures and ideas are shown by the media.

Media texts show not the truth but an interpretation of the truth.

Macro-analysis: Looking at the broad analysis, taking the whole thing into consideration.

Micro- Analysis: Looking at something in great detail and analysing it closely.

Mediate: To come between the truth.

Signs are polysemic.

Polysemic: Polysemic refers to the facts that signs can have more than one meaning.

The Genre Cycle: This is when one genre becomes less popular, then a new group of a film becomes popular. eventually it become a complete cycle.

1 comment:

  1. Where is all your research notes and reflections? This blog is severley behind where it should be! You need to understand the purpose of a blog. I want your next entry to be a comment on what you have learned from a past blog!

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