Reception theory

1) What is the preferred reading of a media text? - This is when the producer picks and chooses how they want their audience to view the media text.

2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text? when the audience rejects the preferred reading, and creates their own meaning for the text.

3) How does the Harry Brown trailer position the audience to respond to the teenage characters in the film?
- The Harry Brown trailer positions the audience to responding to the teenagers as violent and aggressive.

4) Why might young people reject this reading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer?
- They might have felt misunderstood since not every young person is the same or like this.

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