GROWING PAINS: The portrayal of teenagers in different countries and time periods.

Media Studies 3.2 V. 1 AS91491 INTERNAL

Demonstrate understanding of the meaning of media text through different readings.

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Demonstrate understanding of the meaning of media text through different readings.
You will be studying two very different films for this standard, Tsotsi (2005) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955) The films were made 50 years apart but resonate themes of youth disenchantment, historical and cultural struggles and varying political landscapes. The central characters in the film are both young people struggling to survive in difficult environments. Tsotsi is a South African film and Rebel Without a Cause an American film.

In this assignment you will be writing four essays which analyse the films with alternative readings.

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You will be writing two essays on Tsotsi on the questions below: Explain how the stylistic choices in Tsotsi reflect themes of hope and despair. Tsotsi represents gender in conflicting ways. Discuss.

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You will be writing two essays on Rebel Without a Cause on the questions below: How does Rebel Without a Cause reflect the social and cultural landscape of 1950s America? In what ways does Nicolas Ray (the director) portray the character of Jimmy as being a disenchanted teenager in Rebel Without a Cause?

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ACHIEVEMENT

ACHIEVEMENT WITH MERIT

ACHIEVEMENT WITH EXCELLENCE

Demonstrate Demonstrate Demonstrate inperceptive understanding of the depth understanding understanding of the meaning of media of the meaning of meaning of media text through different media text through text through different readings. different readings. readings.

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Demonstrate perceptive understanding involves evaluating the significance of the effect of different readings for the text and/or society. The significance may include: aesthetic, social, cultural, political, historical, economic, technological, or ideological considerations.

Demonstrate in depth understanding involves analysing the effect of different readings of media text. This Demonstrate understanding involves analysing the effect of analysis may involve the ways different readings of media text. in which a reading uncovers, adds or changes the meaning of a media text and may make connections to media theory.

Questions to guide you

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How can you evaluate this How can you interpret the text against the question? text? How does the text What is the significance of uncover meaning? How does it the text to society, the whole How can you interpret the text add meaning? How does the film, the culture in which it is and answer the question? What text change meaning? How made, the effect does the text have? How can you interpret it do techniques enhance the text political/economic and differently?What cultural and add to it? historical climate in which it arguments can you take from was made? How does the your reading? How do text reflect ideology (of the techniques enhance the text director or the country in and add to it? which it was made).