I highly commend the web page 'Nine top tips for Media students'. From the people behind theory.org.uk, its worth a read!
Showing posts with label Guardian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guardian. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Useful reading, books, viewing

Screenshot of links list/RSS from here
You could buy books on general media theory (or a specific area of this), or even semiotics, if you wish, though the main recommendation would be to do some wider reading on the film industry, and especially British cinema ... and viewing (scroll to the end for viewing tips and links).

SUGGESTED READING

Your exam board, CIE, base the syllabus on the UK OCR syllabus, and you can buy a guide book on the AS OCR course.

There are journals you could consider too: Sight and Sound (university level) and also Media Magazine (which St G's subscribes to).

The Guardian is a centre-left UK broadsheet or 'quality' newspaper; its Media section is the most comprehensive of any paper, and you'll learn a lot by regularly dipping into it (I use the free Android app to download new articles automatically overnight, and read this daily). The film section is obviously especially useful! Furthermore, there are weekly UK/US/world box office reports, with a lot of great information on audiences, film companies and marketing, with insights into distribution and how cinema companies operate too. You can find links over on my British Cinema blog, plus RSS feeds for specific topics like NBC-Universal!

KEY LINKS:

Gant columns from June 2016

The top two results from the simple 'british cinema' search below are especially recommended. The British Cinema Book [Amazon] is hefty and very long, but is organised into reasonably short chapters. New British Cinema from Submarine... is an interesting read (and Submarine is from Warp, one of our two core case studies).