Teaching TV Advertising

Teaching TV Advertising offers a clear introduction to advertising and its role in television. Beginning with the history of the growth of the advertising industry, Wendy Helsby goes on to explore: The language of advertising including textual analysis, visual and auditory codes, narrative and genre, and intertextuality; Audience and targeting including cultural, global and regional codes; Messages and meanings looking at representation and ideologies; The industry and its institutions from ad agencies to production companies, from commercial TV channels to regulatory bodies. Teaching TV Advertising also includes agreat many classroom resource sheets to support each section of the book, a clear glossary and a further resources list, including a suggested lesson plan. Certain to be of practical use, Teaching TV Advertising is an essential resource for teachers of both GCSE and A level Media Studies.