Absolutely every A level media studies theory

In this video I cover all nineteen theories on the EDUQAS A-level media studies specification in (just over) half an hour!

Click here for an index of all the theories and subheadings in this video: https://lr-media.blogspot.com/2020/12...

Remember: by covering these theories in such brief detail, I am doing each and every theorist a huge disservice. If you would like to know more, you should check out my other videos, my blog at lr-media.blogspot.com, which has articles on every theory and a handy revision guide which covers the whole of the A-level media studies course.

I also strongly recommend Mark Dixon's excellent book Media Theory for A Level: The Essential Revision Guide, which covers all nineteen theories in significantly more detail, and proves an excellent jumping off point to the real point of all this: reading the original books by the theorists themselves!

MEDIA LANGUAGE

1 - Semiotics - Roland Barthes

(advertising, music videos, newspapers, magazines, online media)

2 - Narratology - Tzvetan Todorov

(television)

3 - Genre theory - Steve Neale

(television)

4 - Structuralism - Claude Lévi-Strauss

(Advertising, music videos, newspapers, television, magazines, online media)

5 - Postmodernism - Jean Baudrillard

(television, online media)

REPRESENTATION

6 - Theories of representation - Stuart Hall

(advertising, music videos, newspapers, television, online media)

7 - Theories of identity - David Gauntlett

(advertising, music videos, magazines, online media)

8 - Feminist theory - Liesbet van Zoonen

(advertising, music videos, television, magazines)

9 - Feminist theory - bell hooks

(advertising, music videos, television, magazines)

10 - Theories of gender performativity - Judith Butler

(television, magazines, online)

11 - Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory - Paul Gilroy

(advertising, music videos, online media)

MEDIA INDUSTRIES

12 - Power and media industries - Curran and Seaton

(film industry, newspapers, radio, videogames, magazines)

13 - Regulation - Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt

(film industry, newspapers, radio, videogames, television, magazines, online media)

14 - Cultural industries - David Hesmondhalgh

(film industry, newspapers, videogames, television, online media)

AUDIENCES

15 - Media effects - Albert Bandura

(videogames)

16 - Cultivation theory - George Gerbner

(advertising, newspapers, magazines, online media)

17 - Reception theory - Stuart Hall

(advertising, newspapers, radio, videogames, television, magazines)

18 - Fandom - Henry Jenkins

(radio, videogames, television, online media)

19 - ‘End of audience’ theories - Clay Shirky

(newspaper, radio, videogames, online media)