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MEDIA THEORY Double click me.

AUDIENCE THEORIES

Hypodermic Needle 

Two Step Flow

Cultivation Theory

Stuart Hall

Encoding Decoding/ Reception Model

Uses and Gratifications

Claude Levi Strauss - Binary Oppositions

NARRATIVE THEORIES

Todorov 

Vladimir Propp

Roland Barthes:

Narrative codes

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Your favourite video buddy summarising the narrative theories;

REPRESENTATION THEORIES

Laura Mulvey

The male gaze.

There are hundreds of videos on the internet explaining Laura Mulvey and her theory on visual pleasure and narrative theory. This short video looks particularly at James Bond films and the objectification of the female.

semiotics explained

Richard Dyer: stereotypes

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