What do you need to be able to do with theorists and theories?
You do NOT need to:
Learn a load of quotes
Explain their theories in great depth
Know them all
You DO need to:
Use a few
Be able to apply them to your work/ case studies
Consider how useful/ not useful they are when discussing your work/ case studies
How to use theorists… Quote Summarise Comment
Assume your reader knows about the theory/ theorist. Don ’t explain the theory; use it.
A Todorovian analysis would argue…
Mulvey ’s notion of the Male Gaze provides a useful way of understanding the video in that…
Steve Neale ’ s statement that Genre is “ made up of repetition and change ” could be useful here because…
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