CI5472 Teaching Film, Television, and Media

 

Module 6

Studying Advertising

Objectives

In studying this module, you should learn to:

  • Recognize the need to frame advertising analysis within the larger context of understanding advertising within a consumer culture.

  • Formulate a rationale for helping students learn to critically analyze ads.

  • Apply and know how to teach semiotic, rhetorical, critical discourse analysis, and feminist methods to ads.

  • Define ways in which ads can function as propaganda or is used in politics.

  • Analyze uses of advertising on the Web or school contexts.

  • Create your own ads, including the uses of parody or spoofs of ads.

  • Develop teaching methods for teaching critical analysis of ads.

A Broader Definition of Advertising Instruction

Advertising Drives Content

Why Study Ads?

Application of Semiotic Analysis to Ads

Rhetorical/Audience Analysis of Ads

Critical Discourse Analysis of Ads

Advertising as Propaganda: Public Relations Ads

Advertising and Idealized Gender Images

Advertising and Alcohol/Tobacco

Advertising and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Advertising on the Web

Marketing in Schools

Political Advertising

Product Placements

Creating or Parodying Ads to Understand Ads

References

Teaching Activities


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