Reception theory
1) What is the preferred reading of a media text The massage that the producer is trying to show it to the audence 2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text? An oppositional reading is when the audience completely regect or disagree when an audience completely rejects the preferred meaning that a media producer intends for their text 3) How does the Harry Brown trailer position the audience to respond to the teenage characters in the film? That all of the teenage people are murders and agressive 4) Why might young people reject this re ading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer? Young people might construct an oppositional reading of a trailer because their personal social, political, or moral beliefs clash with the trailer's intended message . This can happen if they disagree with controversial themes, find the narrative outdated or complex, or are from a different culture or age group than the target audience,...