[4.1] Critical Approaches to Response to a Media Text

[4.2] Applying critical perspectives to an ad

[4.3] Rhetorical/Audience Analysis

[4.4] Semiotic/Narrative Analysis

[4.5] Poststructuralist Analysis: Interrogating Language Categories

[4.6] Critical Discourse Analysis

[4.7] Psychoanalytic Theories

[4.8] Feminist Criticism

[4.9] Postmodern Theory

[4.10] Postcolonial Theory

[4.11] Final Task

[4.12] References

Powerpoints

[4.5.1] Michael Peters: Postructuralism and Education

[4.5.2] Click here for more information on poststructualism.

[4.5.3] John Lye: Some Poststructuralist Assumptions

[4.5.4] The NCTE Chalkface Series: high school textbooks applying poststructuralist analysis to literary and media texts

[4.5.5] Jacqueline Podolski: ReadWriteThink: He Said/She Said: Analyzing Gender Roles through Dialogue: analysis of gender categories and stereotypes

For further reading on poststructuralist theory:

Belsey, B. (2002). Poststructuralism: A very short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bannet, E. T. (1989). Structuralism and the logic of dissent: Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Palmer, D. (1997). Structuralism and poststructuralism for beginners. New York: Writers and Readers.