Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

This subject investigates many areas of the mass media – film, music, newspapers, advertising, and image production, the internet, and video games. Given that teenagers are widely knowledgeable about the mass media, you will already have great funds of information about this subject upon which to draw. As an academic area of study, media studies is nowadays very widely taught at degree level and some of its concepts are shared with English or literary studies. Elsewhere the subject forms significant overlaps with design, economics, history, psychology, and sociology. Component 1: Meanings and representations in the media Component 2: Media forms and products in-depth Component 3: Cross-media production