10 Definitions related to my study...

B-
Biopic: a film that concentrates on the life and the biography of someone.
50 cent's life is shown throughout the movie.
C-
cross genre: a text which includes a hybrid genre.
E-
Empathy: is to share the emotions or a point of view of a person.
G-
Gangster: a film genre based on the life of gangsters.
This is one of the genres of my text.
I-
ideology: values and what is the idea that the text is trying to show u such as capitalism, patriarchal ideologies, etc...
M-
method acting: actors really get in to that character and they act as that character physically, emotionally and psychologically.
N-
norms: the cultures of that special society and the type of behaviour expected in that particular society.
P-
Polysemic: a sign which shows many possible interpretations of social, cultural and educational background.
Power: which is used to dominant ideologies and control the society.
production values:
all the elements that are involved in a production of a text, mainly the media language.
R-
Racism- involving social and economic discrimination, including blaxplotation which is reinforcing negative stereo types.
Representation:
how the media constructs the representation of various places, people, images, words, sounds etc...
S-
Social realism: representation of characters and issues to raise serious issues.
Y-
youth culture: which represents the style of living in a particular society such as dress, music, behaviour etc...