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Quick questions on The music video and magazine set products - OCR A-Level Media Studies
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What are magazines?Show answer
The magazine set products include mainstream titles and an alternative one:
What is the key comparison?Show answer
The decisive comparison is between mainstream and alternative. Adbusters deliberately challenges the dominant ideology (consumerism, aspirational gendered representation) that mainstream titles like GQ and Vogue tend to reinforce. Applying Hall (representation and ideology) and van Zoonen (gender), you analyse how the alternative magazine resists and how far the mainstream titles reinforce, remembering that mainstream titles can also offer countertypes (Gauntlett) and that audiences decode differently (Hall).
What is q1?Show answer
Explain how a music video can be used to promote the artist. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Analyse how one magazine set product constructs a representation through its cover. [10 marks]
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