The course is organised around four themes: media, audiences and issues: in which issues concerning the consumption of the media and the production of meaning are explored; identities and lifestyles: in which the way that media representations help people to shape their lives is explored; media and the world of work: in which research skills and institutional relationships within the media industries are studied and the media workplace itself is explored; texts and narratives: in which the form and structure of story telling in film and television is explored; optional modules include: lifestyle television; Hollywood movies; news culture and journalism; marketing and advertising; British film industry; pop music; sport media and everyday life; learning for work; comedy; celebrity culture; horror cinema.