19th Sep: Basic Theory Part III

Smart Start

Use the link below to access today's smart start, focusing on the theories studied so far and camera movement media language.

Media Language Quiz 1

Learning Check

We will go through the answers using the no hands policy. How well did you do?

The Big Picture

In today's lesson, we will answer the following questions;

1. What does the term 'discourse' mean?
2. What does convergence mean?
3. What is colonialism?
4. What is ethnocentricity?
5. What does hierarchy mean?
6. What is an LDC?
7. What is Gilroy's Ethnicity & Postcolonial Theory?

Explain

We will use the following presentation to support our learning;

Practise

Watch our Water Aid set text in the sidebar. Then answer the following questions in your online learning journal (blog);

1. How does the Water Aid advert support or challenge Paul Gilroy's Post-Colonial Theory?
2. Consider this text in the context of Levi-Strauss' Structuralist Theory. What binary oppositions are apparent?
3. How does the Water Aid advert support or challenge Van Zoonen's Feminist Theory?

Review