Media Theories by K Mallon https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories Revise, Learn & Educate en-us 2018-11-12 09:33:26 UTC 2025-09-26 15:38:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Moderncam.png Sandro https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303171447 Conventional definitions of genres tend to be based on themes and settings]]> 2018-11-12 10:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303171447 Semiotics - Louis https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303171663 The relationship between a sign and a object and a meaning. The sign represents the object in the mind of an interpreter ]]> 2018-11-12 10:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303171663 Xavier https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303171792 A sign, in this context, refers to something which conveys meaning – for example, a written or spoken word, a symbol or a myth]]> 2018-11-12 10:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303171792 Marvin French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was arguably the first to spark interest in Structuralism https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303171926 2018-11-12 10:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303171926 Xavier https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172067 Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception. While in principle the word may refer to any systematic study of narrative, in practice its usage is rather more restricted]]> 2018-11-12 10:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172067 A study of signs and there meaning in society. It can stand for something else, and convey meaning. Anything can be a sign, anything as a form of human communication- if it conveys meaning- e.g -words, gestures etc. https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172112 Can be applied to Rolan Barthes' theory- semiology- study of signs and their relation to meaning. Denoting an connoting- meanings.
E.g- in life of mars- playing of Life on Mars- David Bowie- may be denoted as a song being played- connoted as a song- carrying relation to theme of whole show- being familiar with a life you cannot reach- how this signs conveys meaning
Blake]]> 2018-11-12 10:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172112 Xavier https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172167 'genres are instances of repetition and difference' 'difference is absolutely essential to the economy of genre': mere repetition would not attract an audience. Texts often exhibit the conventions of more than one genre. 
https://www.slideshare.net/HeworthMedia/genre-theory]]> 2018-11-12 10:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172167 Jacob https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172176 Jean's key influences were Karl Marx, and how production is eclipsed by re-production, Guy Debord, and how people in society become passive spectators, Nietzsche, and how truth is a simulation and his ideas on Perspectivism, De Saussure, and his ideas on semiotics theory and finally Mauss and his ideas of potlatch and the gift opposed to change.
https://www.slideshare.net/jbradfo4/postmodernism-foucault-and-baudrillard]]> 2018-11-12 10:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172176 Marvin https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172217 The term "structuralism" is a related term that describes a particular philosophical/literary movement or moment.]]> 2018-11-12 10:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172217 Sandro https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172261 Steve Neale declares that 'genres are instances of repetition and difference' (Neale 1980, 48).]]> 2018-11-12 10:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172261 Ele https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172267 Denotation and Connotation;

The denotations of the colours on a traffic light would simply be Red, green and amber. However, we know the connotations of these colours to be stop, get ready and go.

The denotations show factually what the object/word/picture might be however the connotations show the significance behind that certain thing and what we may subconsciously think of it.

]]> 2018-11-12 10:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172267 a film is defined by 2 things: https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172433 how it conforms to stereotypes and conventions
how it subverts stereotypes and conventions

Declan

]]> 2018-11-12 10:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172433 Milly https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172449 https://www.slideshare.net/HeworthMedia/genre-theory]]> 2018-11-12 10:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172449 Marvin https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x300/70/137270-004-5CF48B45.jpg https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172457 2018-11-12 10:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172457 Sandro https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172560 Neale states that the film and it’s genre is defined by two things:

How much is conforms to its genre’s individual conventions and stereotypes. A film must match the genre’s conventions to be identified as part of that genre.

How much a film subverts the genre’s conventions and stereotypes. The film must subvert convention enough to be considered unique and not just a clone of an existing film.]]> 2018-11-12 10:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172560 Xavier https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172561 Binary opposition is the system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. Structuralism theory is  in which cultures, viewed as systems, are analysed in terms of the structural relations among their elements.]]> 2018-11-12 10:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172561 Frank https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172564 Narratology is the study of narrative and how it effects our perception. For example in life on mars early on in the first episode it is ambiguous wether he is travelled back in time or in a coma later on it is confirmed. I is down to the audience to perceive what they think]]> 2018-11-12 10:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172564 Narrative theory - Louis https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172583
States that most story's plot lines follow the same pattern or path.
Equilibrium
Disruption
Realisation
Restored order 
New equilibrium]]> 2018-11-12 10:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172583 Milly https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172623 Neale believes genres are instances of repetition]]> 2018-11-12 10:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172623 Marvin Structuralism has often been criticized for being ahistorical and for favouring deterministic structural forces over the ability of people to act. https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172785 2018-11-12 10:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172785 He says that a film must conform to these conventions enough that it can still qualify and be identified as a film of that genre. https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172908 However, a film must subvert these conventions enough that it is still viewed as a unique film, not just a clone.

Declan]]> 2018-11-12 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172908 Sandro https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172918 "To guarantee pleasure and meaning for the audience."

Life on Mars' prime role is to entertain and it creates meaning as the target audience is people that grew up in the 70s would see things that are referenced in the show.]]> 2018-11-12 10:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303172918 Sandro https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173083 Neale states that Hollywood’s generic regime performs two functions:

To guarantee pleasure and meaning for the audience.

To offset financial risks of film production by providing collateral against innovation and difference.

]]> 2018-11-12 10:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173083 Jacob https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173100 Jean's simulation theory is prominent in the film THE MATRIX]]> 2018-11-12 10:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173100 Semiotics is the study of signs and their meaning in society. https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173106 LEO]]> 2018-11-12 10:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173106 Hyper-reality https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173220 "Real to thee extreme" like in 'Life on Mars' it was set in the 1970s and included real-life events, objects and traditions. However Tyler felt as if he was stuck in a limbo and was not in his real world.  ]]> 2018-11-12 10:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173220 https://getrevising.co.uk/diagrams/steve-neales-genre-theory https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173235
Declan]]> 2018-11-12 10:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173235 Xavier https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173421 Postmodernism is a term which describes the postmodernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements. It is in general the era that follows Modernism.]]> 2018-11-12 10:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173421 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uiNqtfWvGw https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173426
Declan]]> 2018-11-12 10:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173426 Milly https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173551 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJDC2o__itA]]> 2018-11-12 10:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173551 Jean Baudrillard https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173570 Most important book " simluacar and simulations", being basic of matrix films. hyper reality. The effect of postmodernism on an audience can alter our perseptions of media and reality of media merge.
Harriet ]]> 2018-11-12 10:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173570 Xavier https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173666 2018-11-12 10:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173666 what is a genre theory? https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173752 Genre studies is an academic subject which studies genre theory as a branch of general critical theory in several different fields, including the literary or artistic, linguistic, or rhetorical.

Declan]]> 2018-11-12 10:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173752 These theories are important because they reveal the way in which signs communicate ideas, attitudes and beliefs to us. https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173780 2018-11-12 10:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173780 Jacob https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173895 Just as the legal system functions by utilising images of punishment in order to make real punishment so to signs anticipate and substitute for the real. Simulations deter every real process via an operational double.]]> 2018-11-12 10:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173895 Reflection and Simulation https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173939 A reflection of 1970s British society]]> 2018-11-12 10:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mallonk/Theories/wish/303173939