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for Media Theory required for
A-Level Media Studies.
For resources, assignments and scheme of work, see
@mediaattic
OCR indicates the 18 key A-Level Theorists required for study for the OCR A-Level
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B
Bandura - Bobo Doll (Audiences) OCR
Barthes, Denotation & Connotation (Representations) OCR
Baudrillard - Hyperreality, Postmodernism (Ideologies) OCR
Bechdel, Alison - Bechdel test (Representations)
bell hooks - postfeminism (Ideologies) OCR
Berger, John (Representations)
Berners-Lee, Tim, cyber-democracy (Ideologies)
Binary Opposition, Levi-Strauss (Narrative) OCR
Bobo Doll - Bandura (Audiences)OCR
Butler, Judith - Gender performativity (Representations) OCR
C
Chomsky – Propaganda Model (Industry)
Connotation & denotation - Barthes (Representations) OCR
Cultivation Theory - Gerbner (Audiences) OCR
Curran & Seaton (Industry) OCR
Cyber-democracy, Berners-Lee (Ideologies)
D
Denotation & Connotation, Barthes (Representations)OCR
Dyer- Utopian Pleasures/Solutions Model (Audiences)
E
Encoding/ Decoding, Stuart Hall (Audiences) OCR
F
False Consciousness (Ideologies)
Fandom- Henry Jenkins (Audiences) OCR
Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (Ideologies)
Filter Bubble - Eli Pariser (Audiences)
Friedan, Betty - The Feminine Mystique (Ideologies)
G
Galtung & Ruge - News values (industry)
Gauntlet (Representations) OCR
Gender - Butler (Representations) OCR
Gender - Van Zoonen (Ideologies) OCR
Gaze Theory (Representations)
GEARS (Audiences)
Genre, Steve Neale OCR
Genre, Nick Lacey OCR
Gerbner - Cultivation Theory (Audiences) OCR
Gerbner - Mean World Syndrome (Audiences) OCR
Global Village- McLuhan (Ideologies)
Gramsci - cultural hegemony, consent (Ideologies)
H
Hall - Encoding/Decoding (Audiences) OCR
Hall - Three Readings (Audiences) OCR
Hesmondhalgh, David (Industry) OCR
Hyperreality - Baudrillard (Ideologies) OCR
Hypodermic Needle Model (Audiences)
IJK
Intersectionality (Ideologies) OCR
Intertextuality (Representations)
Jameson (Postmodernism), (Ideologies)
Jenkins - Fandom (Audiences) OCR
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Levi-Strauss, Claude - Binary Oppositions (Narrative) OCR
Long Tail Model, Anderson (Industry)
Livingstone & Lunt (Industry) OCR
M
Male Gaze - Mulvey (Representations)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Audiences)
McLuhan - Global Village (Ideologies)
McRobbie, Angela (Representations)
Mean World Syndrome- Gerbner (Audiences) OCR
Moral Panics - Cohen (Ideologies)
Mulvey, Laura -Male Gaze (Representations)
N
News values (Galtung & Ruge) (industry)
O
O'Reilly, Tim - Web 2.0 (Audiences)
P
Paglia, Camille - Postfeminism (Ideologies)
Pariser, Eli - Filter Bubble (Audiences)
Political Economy Model (Ideologies)
Post-colonialism - Gilroy etc (Ideologies) OCR
Postmodernism (Ideologies)
Propaganda Model, Noam Chomsky (Industry)
Propp - 8 Character Types (Narrative)
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Queer Theory - Butler etc (Representations)OCR
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S
Self-referencing/ self-reflecting texts (Ideologies)
Surveillance Capitalism - Zuboff (Industry)
Symbolic Annihilation (Representations)
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Three Part Structure - Todorov (Narrative) OCR
Three Readings, Stuart Hall (Audiences) OCR
Todorov (Narrative) OCR
Two Step Flow - Lazersfeld & Katz (Audiences)
U
Uses & Gratifications Theory, UGT (Audiences)
Utopian Pleasures Model - Richard Dyer (Audiences)
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Van Zoonen,Lisbet - gender. post-feminism (Ideologies) OCR
WXY
Walter Natasha - Living Dolls (Ideologies)
Web 2.0 - Tim O'Reilly (Audiences)
Wolf, Naomi - The Beauty Myth (Ideologies)
Young & Rubicam Y&R 4Cs Model (Audiences)
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Zuboff, Shoshana - Surveillance Capitalism (Industry)