Sumary

Semiotics
The study of signs-we give sign meaning
Signifies something else
Denotive (explicit)
Connotive (implicit)

Outsider art-not main stream or else everything ends up the same



Communication theory

Message-noise

Redundancy-repeats to get message
Entropy- Opposite



Interventionism

The Gaze-“we like looking”

The male gaze-Woman as objects-virgin Mary- awww
Conditioning-“The world is this way so challenges it.

Taught not to think-GCSE is about remembering

Genre- Codes and conventions
Expectations
Themes

Stereotypes/Representation-shameless
The way we make sense-show a gay man


Digenesis
Breaking the forth wall

Suspension of disbelief

Desensitised-GTA
Conditioning =Brainwashing

Ideology-Educate, Inform and Entertain(BBC)
Social realism
Social responsibility
Ethics
Good person-money