AS Media Studies: The Essential Revision Guide for AQA (Essentials) - Softcover

Wall, Peter; Barker, Joanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415365708 ISBN 13: 9780415365703

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Wall is the Essentials Series Editor. He is co-author of Media Studies: The Essential Resource, Communication Studies: The Essential Resource, AS Communication Studies: The Essential Introduction, AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction (1st and 2nd Editions) and the forthcoming A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction.
Joanne Barker formerly taught Media Studies at Queen Elizabeth 6th Form College in Darlington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415365708
• ISBN 13: 9780415365703
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128