Media Terminology

Social Realism
Social realism is the term used for work produced aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

Post Modernism
Post Modernism is a late 20th-century style and concept in the arts. Which represents a departure from modernism and is characterised by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.

Intertextuality
The term Intertextuality refers to the process of creating references to any kind of media text via another media text. In other words, Intertextuality essentially means for a type of media to pay homage to another media text.

Narrative
The Narrative is the media term for storytelling. The narrative is the way the different elements in a story are organised to make a meaningful story.

Diegesis
In film-making, diegesis is used to name the story depicted on screen, as opposed to the story in real-time that the screen narrative is about. Diegesis may concern elements, such as characters, events, and things within the main or primary narrative.

Ideology
Ideology is a world view, a system of values, attitudes and beliefs which an individual, group or society holds to be true or important; these are shared by a culture or society about how that society should function.

Oppositional Reading
The term Oppositional Reading means an interpretation that opposite from the interpretation the producer intended.