This full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through their WJEC AS in Media Studies. Individual chapters cover the following key areas:

Textual Analysis: Visual, Technical and Audio codes
Textual Analysis: Narrative and Genre Codes
Approaches to Representation
Approaches to Audience Response
Case Studies on Representation and Audience: Gender, Age, Ethnicity, Identity, Events and Issues
Passing MS1: Media Representations and Receptions
Production Work, Evaluation and report

Specially designed to be user-friendly, AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC includes activities, key terms, case studies and sample exam questions. It introduces the course, tackles useful approaches to study, key content covered in the specification, and guides the student in approaching and planning the exam and production work through analysis, prompts and activities.

About Antony Bateman

Antony Bateman is Head of Media and Film Studies at Bingley Grammar School and has previously been Rochdale 14-19 Creative & Media Diploma Programme Director. He is co-author of A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC (2010). Sarah Casey Benyahia is a teacher and examiner of Film and Media Studies. She is the author of Teaching Contemporary British Cinema (2005) and Teaching TV and Film Documentary (2008) and co-author of A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC (2010), AS Film Studies: The Essential Introduction (2nd edition, 2008) and A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction (2nd edition, 2009). Claire Mortimer is an Assistant Examiner for the WJEC board and has worked as a Media and Film Studies teacher for many years. She is currently the Head of AS Media Studies and a Lecturer in Film Studies at Colchester Sixth Form College. She is the author of the Routledge Film Guidebook, Romantic Comedy (2010). Peter Wall is Chair of Examiners for both GCE Media Studies and GCSE Media Studies for a major Awarding Body.He is co-editor of Media Studies: The Essential Resource (2004), Communication Studies: The Essential Resource and Film Studies: The EssentialResource (2006), co-author of AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for AQA (3rd edition, 2008), A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC (2010) and Framework Media: Channels (2004) and author of Media Studies for GCSE (2007).

@contents: Selected Contents: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Aims and rationale How to use this book Part I Chapter 1 Textual Analysis: Visual, Technical and Audio codes Chapter 2 Textual Analysis: Narrative and Genre Codes Chapter 3 Approaches to Representation Chapter 4 Approaches to Audience Response Part II Chapter 5 Case Studies Gender Age Ethnicity Identity Events Issues Chapter 6 Passing MS1: Media Representations and Receptions Part III Chapter 7 Production Work, Evaluation and report Epilogue Index

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Sku

GOR007951922

ISBN 13

9780415613347

ISBN 10

0415613345

Title

AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC by Antony Bateman

Author

Antony Bateman

Series

Essentials

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

2011-06-17

Number of pages

304

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N/A

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Note

The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC by Antony Bateman

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