AQA A-Level Media Studies covering media language, representations, industries, audiences, close study products, and the non-examined assessment.
A framework-based approach to analysing AQA Close Study Products (CSPs) across all nine media forms — advertising, music video, newspapers, magazines, radio, film industry, video games, long-form TV drama, and online media.
Master media audiences for AQA A-Level Media Studies — effects theories, uses and gratifications, reception theory, Hall's encoding/decoding, Jenkins on participatory culture, Shirky, and Bandura.
Master media industries for AQA A-Level Media Studies — ownership, regulation, production, distribution, and key theorists including Hesmondhalgh, Curran & Seaton, and Livingstone & Lunt.
Master media language for AQA A-Level Media Studies — semiotics, codes and conventions, genre, narrative, and key theorists including Barthes, Todorov, Neale, and Baudrillard.
Master media representations for AQA A-Level Media Studies — gender, ethnicity, race, class, age, disability, stereotypes, and key theorists including Hall, Gauntlett, Butler, Mulvey, van Zoonen, hooks, and Gilroy.