TRIAL EXAM PREP

TRIAL EXAM PREP

QUESTIONS:

NEWS

Question 1- representation theorist in relation to a social context. 

Question 2- media language slant- give conclusion

Question 3- economic contexts- need to memorise case studies

Question 4- audience theorist

LFTVD

Main question will have a media language slant

Final question will feature a representation theorist

(Stuart Hall, David Gauntlett, Liesbet Van Zoonen, bell hooks, Judith Butler, Paul Gilroy)

CONTEXTS:

SOCIAL- THE INFLUENCE OF CHANGES IN GENDER ROLES

STRANGER THINGS

- Presentation of eleven, shaved head, makes her look more androgynous.

- Steve is a stereotypical jock, very masculine

- Joyce is a strong fighter and won't take any of hoppers attitude

- Will, described as more feminine masculinity and gay "queer"

- Nancy conforms to stereotypes, initially feminine, with pink bedroom etc ; however, she excels at science.

LUPIN

- Claire doesn't conform to societal norms surrounding gender, she is a single mother who works to provide for her kid, she also has a voice over Assane

- Juliette is very feminine, however unstereotypically at pool is being bold and confident, however she is also objectified at the pool scene, framed as a reward for Assane

- Assane subverts the stereotypes of absent single fathers, ep1 ends with him gifting the book; however, during the fight scene in the Banlieues in the French suburbs shows him as a stereotypical male being strong/ violent. 

Across both shows gender is represented as very complex. LFTVD audiences have come to expect complexity. 

RACIAL AND ETHNIC INEQUALITIES

STRANGER THINGS

-Set in the 1980s, racial discrimination, reflecting white suburban towns in the 80s

- Lucas is the only black character in a hyperreal white suburb, Lucas has very little character development, tokenistic (colour-blind casting e.g. Bridgeton) 

LUPIN

- Young Juliette showed discriminatory language towards Assane. 

CLASS 

STRANGER THINGS 

- Binary opposition between working class and run-down Byers household and white/priviliged suburb of the Wheelers. 

- Middle class nuclear family dynamic; almost always white, heterosexual. 

- Reflects the social context of America. 

- 1980s Reagan government - very little help for the poor.

LUPIN

- Rich white men tend to hold power (ABC1) 

-  Class and race are represented as intersectional (one affects the other) 

- Assane uses class as a disguise to surprise those he steals from.

- "You saw me, but you didn't really look"

- Rich vs poor (binary opposition) Represented by Banlieue vs Louvre 

HISTORICAL 

- Influence of key historical events on television programmes. 

- Links withy political contexts - issues of colonialism 

- History of country in which show is set/ produced. Use of media language to create historically/socially accurate mise-en-scene 

- Hyperreality-Representations of representations

- Realism- how realistic is the portrayal, or are some elements deliberately left absent or included. They represent it with varying degrees of accuracy. 

COLONIALISM

- Frances empire particularly took over Western Africa, including Senegal.

- Many immigrants in France are Senegalese or from Senegalese decent.

- French is now the national language of Senegal and Western Africa. 

- Lupins casting is affected by this, meaning the casting is authentic. 

-Lupin represents the countries colonial history effects the modern society. 

- Post colonial melancholia

- French have a history of revolution

- They are critical of people in power

- Mary Antoinette taken off thrown, and her necklace was given by Napoleon to his wife. 

- Necklace is symbolic of tides of power shifting. 

- Easter egg Louvre gallery 

PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE

INTRODUCE THEORIST- what are the key ideas of their theory? Brief explanation of how it could be useful for news

EXPLAIN how the theory could be useful to news in relation to case studies: The Guardian and the Daily Mail

EXPLAIN THE LIMITATIONS OF THE THEORIST- why is its usefulness limited, particulary remembering the many other frameworks we understand news through

QUESTION 3

•  All of the sections come together
• Things you need to include:

REPRESENTATION

• Imagine Apple Jack is representation
• Representation is how characters, events, and groups are represented
• For example, Apple Jack is presented in a tom boyish way

AUDIENCES

• CAGED (class, age, gender, ethnicity, disability
• Audience profiles (different people, how they are targeted, what they do with it)
• Generations (millenials, gen z)
• Different people are targeted and interpret messages in different ways

INDUSTRY

• About money
• Who owns the media?
• Who regulates it?
• What is the tech?
• Netflix is one of the only companies in 2016 that could've made stranger things. Other companies wouldn't have as many contacts or money to make it.

LANGUAGE

• What we see on screen- camerawork, editing, sound, mise en scene
• What builds up to genre, includes intertextuality, patterns, signs, realism, narrative

CONTEXTS

• Situations the text was made and viewed in
• Historical, economic, social, political
• Media contexts- e.g other films

THEORISTS

NEWS

Only need conclusion for question 2

QUESTION 1

• Given a representation theorist