Uploaded March 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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This videos takes you through the ABCs of media and film studies - featuring theories, concepts and numerous texts.

The full list is as follows:
- Auteur theory
- Big 6 Hollywood studios
- Camerawork and cinematography
- Demographics
- Editing
- French new wave
- Genre
- Hypodermic needle theory
- Intertextuality
- Jenkins, Henry
- Key concepts (Language, institution, audience, representation)
- Laura Mulvey (Male gaze theory)
- Mise en scene
- Narrative
- OFCOM
- Propp, Vladamir
- Queer theory
- Reception theory
- Stereotypes
- Todorov
- Uses and gratification theory
- Viral videos
- Widescreen aspect ratio
- X rated
- Young and Rubicam
- Zolly (vertigo effect)

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