Media Studies A-Level
Repetition and citation of norms
What Repetition and citation of norms means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A set of repeated acts and stylised conventions that produce the illusion of an inner essence.
Topics that use Repetition and citation of norms
- Theories of gender performativity - Butler's ideas and theories on gender performativity (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Gender performativity
- Historical and cultural contingency of gender
- Naturalisation in media representation
- Stylisation and cultural convention
- Constructed versus naturalised gender
- Gender as constructed rather than essential
- Parody and hyperbolic repetition
- Repetition and the production of identity
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