Marnia's Homework 1

Task 1- Film in theory 

Structuralism: in sociology anthropology, and linguistics, structuralism is the methodology that implies element of human culture must be understood by the ways of their relationship to a broader, overarching system or structure. 

Example; theory was introduced by psychologist Wilhelm Wundt and that was popularised by Edward B Tichener.  Example Structuralism is a camouflage blanket. 

Semiotics: is the study of mean-making, the study of sign process and meaningful communication. It is not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology, which is a subset of semiotics. Semiotics includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. 

Auteur theory: An auteur is an artist, such as a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work; in other words, a person equivalent to an author of a novel or a play. 

 Feminism: Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes. This includes seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities for women that are equal to those for men. 

Examples; women who are fighting for progress. 

Queer theory: Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself. 

Examples; Queer theory proposed a wider and more complex way of reading ... important to understand what came next

 Marxism:is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation. It originates from the works of 19th century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Examples; Marxist theory to some extent in progressing and making societal change.

 Psychoanalytic: The method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts. 

Examples; a method of investigating and treating personality disorders and is used psychotherapy. 

Task 2

Genre analysis: Genre analysis is a new approach to discourse and text analysis in ESP. Its research findings have established common rhetorical patterns in academic writing. Therefore genre analysis has an important role in developing both writing and reading skills.


Content analysis: is a research technique used to make replicable and valid inferences by interpreting and coding textual material


Narrative analysis: Narrative inquiry uses field texts, such as stories, autobiography, journals, field notes, letters, conversations, interviews, family stories, photos (and other artifacts), and life experience, as the units of analysis to research and understand the way people create meaning in their lives as narratives.

Define reception study: Reception theory is a version of reader response literary theory that emphasizes each particular reader's reception or interpretation in making meaning from a literary text. A form of reception theory has also been applied to the study of historiography.


Define fan study:  is the name given to the academic study and examination of fans and fandom. ... In his article Fan Studies for Oxford Bibliographies, Henry Jenkins describes fan studies as “a field of scholarly research focused on media fans and fan cultures”.

Task 3 

Nightmare on Elm Street is an sub-genere of horror/thriller movie, which would be targeted for those at the age of 18 years old or upwards, making it not suitable for children, and it uses intertextuality, this movie is similar to Friday the 13th which is also a horror/ thriller genre. Furthermore the iconography of Freddy Krueger's hands is that it create tensions in the movie where something is going to go wrong as the audience should be scared to watch.