There is quite a tension in the new course between the requirements to have a core set of primary media texts (that can be selected/monitored and standardised) and the business of Media Studies (that is the analysis of current, popular and ephemeral material). This is the first look my students have had at one of the new AQA Media Studies A level’s Close-Study Products. Tomb Raider Anniversary, Metroid: Prime 2 Echoes and Sims Freeplay. Playing the Game: Writing about Game Content: AQA Media A Level. I have now written a set of notes to help you write about gameplay in all three CSPs. As a result looking at the design choices for the 1996 game is really important but you MUST make it clear you are writing about the 2007 game! The original designer was Toby Guard (who was the writer for Anniversary). The game itself is a re-working of the original, 1996, game Tomb Raider (made by Core Design and published by Eidos).
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The human body as a copy in film – Metropolis, Frankenstein, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Blade Runner, Dead Ringers, Being John Malkovich.The CSP is the 2007 game Tomb Raider Anniversary (made by Crystal Dynamics and Buzz Monkey Software and published by Eidos).
Roland Barthes: “The Brain of Einstein”īasic semiotics: referent, sign, signifier, signified.Roland Barthes: “The World of Wrestling”.Daniel Chandler: Semiotics for Beginners: Codes.Empowering the spectator as the ‘author’ of the text/image.Ī Brief Introduction to Semiotics: genre and advertising codes Positioning the spectator through scopic space: from Renaissance perspective to postmodernism. Henry Jenkins: “‘Strangers No More We Sing’: Filking and the Social Construction of the Science Fiction Fan Community”.Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson: “Reader-oriented theories,” from A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory: 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, pp.WEEK 5: February 2 & 4 (PAPER #1 DUE Wednesday, February 4)įrom Passive to Active Spectatorship: ‘the Spectator as Producer’ Griffith, Gillo Pontecorvo, Haskell Wexler, Errol Morris, Michael Moore and Jean-Luc Godard. Issues of fiction and document in film – Jean Renoir, Robert Flaherty, D.W. Manipulated documents, fictions which aim at reality. Vivian Sobchack: “On the Death of a Rabbit in Fictional Space”įictional and documentary space in photography.Censorship, obscenity, and the First Amendment.įictional and Documentary Space: Blurring the difference The constructed space of the female nude in art. Lynda Nead: “Erotic Art: A Frame for Desire”.Lynda Nead: “Obscenity and the Sublime”.Lynda Nead: “Aesthetics and the Female Nude”.Lynda Nead: “A Discourse on the Naked and the Nude”.WEEK 3: January 21 (School Holiday January 19) Political implications in the mediated image – Riefenstahl, Berkeley, Lang, Shakespeare’s Henry V. Technology as a force of cultural change. Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductionĭefinitions of mediation.Understanding Mediation: photography and cinema The intertext, the hypotext and the hypertext as a general framework for considering visual literacy. Carl Matheson: The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony and the Meaning of LifeĬourse introduction: Defining visual literacy as a general construct.Intertextuality: There’s no such thing as an original image (Please complete all the readings prior to the first date for which they are assigned)