Media Studies A-Level
Deconstruction
What Deconstruction means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Deconstruction
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A way of reading a media text that unsettles the meanings it seems to fix.
Topics that use Deconstruction
Related terms
- Binary oppositions in structuralism
- Cultural codes
- Decoding through cultural knowledge
- Lévi-Strauss
- Meaning-making in media texts
- Opposition and difference
- Privileging and devaluing in binary oppositions
- Structuralism
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