Media Studies Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

An introduction into the representation of the Gross-Out. Covering concepts by King, Bakhtin and Douglas. These are notes taken in a lecture at Nottingham Trent University and helped me to achieve a First.

An introduction into the representation of postmodern bodies. Covering concepts from Bordo, Lyotard, and Foucault. These are notes taken in a lecture at Nottingham Trent University and helped me to achieve a First.

An introduction into the representation of the ageing body. These are notes taken in a lecture at Nottingham Trent University and helped me to achieve a First.

An introduction into the Media and Gender theorist Judith Butler. These are notes taken in a lecture at Nottingham Trent University and helped me to achieve a First.

An introduction into the concepts of Lifestyle, Holidays and the New Middle Class. Covering concepts by Lee, Boortstin and Urry. These are notes taken in a lecture at Nottingham Trent University and helped me to achieve a First.

An introduction into the Media theorist Pierre Bourdieu and his concepts of Structure and Agency. These are notes taken in a lecture at Nottingham Trent University and helped me to achieve a First.

An introduction into the Media theorist Michel Foucault. These are notes taken in a lecture at Nottingham Trent University and helped me to achieve a First.

An essay assessing the extent to which popular culture represents post-feminism as empowerment to females.

This answers the question: How does Ros Gill offer a more complex account of post-feminism than those critics who simply see post-feminism as a ‘backlash’ against feminism? with key examples and texts in popular cultures.