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Media Terminologies/Keywords

Keyword Definition
 
absence

 
anchorage

 
archetypes

 
assumed identity of the
audience

 
audience positioning
(Mulvey)

 
camera angle

 
camera movement

 
categorisation
 
colour

 
composition

 
connotation

 
cultural codes

 
decoding

 
denotation

 
devices

 
dominant

 
encoding
 
establishing shot

 
exhibitionism

 
framing

 
generic codes

 
genre

 
hierarchy

 
homogeny

 
hybrids

 
Hypodermic Needle Theory
 
ideology

 
intertextuality

 
lighting

 
mediation

 
media construction (Dyer)

 
negotiated reading

 
oppositional reading

 
platforms

 
polysemy

 
preferred reading

 
presence
 
Re-presenting (Hall)

 
scopophilia

 
sectors

 
selection of media
 
semiotics
 
spectator
 
stereotyping (Dyer)
 
subgenre
 
technical codes
 
The Male Gaze (Mulvey)
 
Uses and Gratification
(Blumer & Katz)
 
aberrant reading
 
open text
 
closed text
 
signified
 
signifier
 
sign
 
construction
 
visual effects
 
voyerism
 
 
   
   

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