Task 2


structuralism and semiotics:
These are the theories that explore how audiences gain meaning from a media texts.

auteur theory:
a definition used in media referring to when the director is the main creative force of the media text.

feminism:
this is the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.

 queer theory:
Queer theory is  a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself.

 Marxism:
the concept of class struggle plays a central role in our lives. Believes that society would inevitably develop from the oppression of the poor under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classes society. E.g. Kings vs Servants. History of society is the history of class struggle.

 psychoanalytic:
Freud developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality development, which argued that personality is formed through conflicts among three fundamental structures of the human mind: the Id, ego and superego.