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CMM1101 Reading Media Texts
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ARTS
Credit Points: 15
 
Description:
The unit offers an overview of critical approaches used within media and film studies as forms of media textual analysis. It examines a variety of media texts including film, television, advertisements, photography and the press. It introduces students to a number of key theoretical perspectives and approaches including: examination of the 'language' of the media, semiology, theories of narrative structure and binary oppositions, genre theory. It aims to develop student skills in studying written critical analyses of the media and in writing their own critical essays on the media.

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This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
K33Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Communications
Y03Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Communications
M35Bachelor of Communications
G79Bachelor of Contemporary Arts
MIAACKCommunications and Culture Minor - Bunbury
 
 
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 31/03/2010 VET: 31/03/2010