LO4 Uses and Gratifications theory

(Denis McQual, 1972)

- There are four reasons that people consume media products/pleasures they gain from them:

1. Surveillance - using the media to find out information, social media, the news, radio.

2. Escapism - people who prefer the different reality within media, as oppose to the reality we live in.

3. Building personal identitiy - using media products to build your personality, people use characters in media to be role models

4. Building personal realtionships - using media to connect to people (social) provides a topic of conversation

Using the examples you have from the film, apply the 'uses and gratifications' theory to the work.

(Example: "Four Lions offers the gratification survellance about the current political climate and information about the belief of different cultures because...")

X-Men: Days of Future Past offers Escapism, due to the world being based in the Mutant Universe, where mutants live among human beings, which is highly unrealistic, it also offers surveillance, since it offers a social commentry on discrimination. It also offers th ALL 4

Narrative resolution? (all)

Freudenschade? (comedy) Laughing at other people, harm joy.

Stars? (Dyer, 1975) (all)

Freindship/companionship? (all)