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Media Issues and Debates

2 hour exam:, Film Genre Magazines & Gender

Aim

• To develop critical arguments about a range of media debates and issues.

• Bring all the various skills and concepts you have studied together.

Issues

• the concerns people argue about

• the discussions we have as a society about the role of the media and the relationship between individual people, media organisations, producers and governments.

Example

• Should violent films be censored?

• Why are 90 per cent of the films shown at mulitplexes American?

• Should journalists be allowed to intrude on people’s privacy?

There is no right or wrong answer

• That is what makes it an issue and/or debate.

Your task:

• understand the issues around these debates:

• the subject matter

• the factual, historical and political context.

Make your own conclusions

• explain each point of view

• give examples

• show your personal engagement and give your INFORMED opinion

Your involvement• Discuss how the media:

• represent you

• take profit from you

• serve you

• provide for you

• include you

• exclude you

Examples

• Why are so many of the films we see using the same genre formulas over and over again.

• Do magazines aimed at men and women serve to reinforce damaging gender stereotypes?