Media Studies A-Level
Stylisation and cultural convention
What Stylisation and cultural convention means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Stylisation and cultural convention
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Acts are stylised in that they follow culturally recognisable conventions of dress, gesture, speech and movement rather than being spontaneous expressions of a self.
Topics that use Stylisation and cultural convention
- 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
- Constructed versus naturalised gender
- Gender as constructed rather than essential
- Parody and hyperbolic repetition
- Repetition and citation of norms
- Repetition and the production of identity
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