THST 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Discourse Analysis, Media Studies, Essentialism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Theatre Studies
• Course: THST 2450
• Professor: Mark Lipton

Document Summary

Textual analysis and how it bleeds into other methological. Content and self enclosed text: looking at the specific media text reading it for its self enclosed messages (messages, symbols how do the signs work to make meaning) Discourse analysis: broader social norms, cultural conversations--looking at content for what it says about norms ideologies how does it participate in conversation. Content as reflection of producers: how does content reflect producers. Essentialism: ideology that there are qualities thought to be timeless, not water what essential, inherent, intrinsic, natural part of something/something. Ideology that scribes to the natural differences between us that do not change part of the nature of a person. Constructionism: ideology that there are no essential qualities of personhood or cultures; all of out qualities are socially constructed, historically produced, contingent on circumstances. All of our qualities and differences are sociologically produced product of culture not nature (look at evolutionary reasoning) Media studies, anthro. , sociology very focused on this.