Media Studies A-Level

Conflict and resolution types

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The type of conflict a genre foregrounds and the kind of resolution the text offers, such as contest and control or reconciliation and harmony.

AQA · Genre theory as summarised by Neale

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Genre theory as summarised by Neale (AQA A-Level)

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