ABSTRACT

AS Media Studies: The Essential Revision Guide for AQA is the must-have, self-help resource for students preparing for AQA AS Media Studies exams.

Individual sections cover the key topics, including media language, audience, representation, film and broadcast fiction, and advertising and marketing amongst many, many more.

Written by experienced teachers and examiners, this excellent revision guide also provides invaluable advice and support, and includes:

  • activities 
  • exam questions 
  • worked examples 
  • advice on how to approach the exam – using the reading time, note taking, planning an answer, ordering your ideas and writing your response
  • revision tips 
  • suggested resources.

The authors also cover important questions for students – including: why do we have exams? What is AS Level? What is AQA Media Studies? And how does the exam system work? – so that any student of media studies will find themselves armed and ready to tackle their course head on.

part |1 pages

PART 1 INTRODUCTION

chapter |16 pages

GETTING READY

chapter |8 pages

REVISION

chapter |2 pages

RESOURCES

chapter |3 pages

HELP!!!!

chapter |10 pages

THE EXAM SYSTEM EXPLAINED

chapter |30 pages

PART 2 MED1 – READING THE MEDIA

part |1 pages

PART 3: MED2 — TEXTUAL TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

chapter |6 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter |17 pages

FILM AND BROADCAST FICTION

chapter |42 pages

DOCUMENTARY

chapter |36 pages

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING

chapter |14 pages

BRITISH NEWSPAPERS

chapter |2 pages

PART 4 CONCLUSION

part |2 pages

PART 5 APPENDICES

chapter |8 pages

SAMPLE AQA MATERIALS

chapter |2 pages

DOCUMENTARY

chapter |6 pages

ADVERTISING