A Beginners Guide to Semiotics

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem01.html

An invaluable guide to semiotics.

Useful AS media blog - looking at ethnicity and stereotyping in Hotel Babylon

http://beauchampcollegemedia.com/2011/09/28/representation-of-ethnicity-in-hotel-babylon/

Gramsci's theory of hegemony and the representation of ethnic minorities in Western television and film.

http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-rol6.htm

The Masoods in Eastenders - BBC drama ethnicity policies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/22/masoods-eastenders-bbc

Television Drama and the Representation of Ethnicity

http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=racismethni

Read through the information on the history of representaion of ethnic groups in American television drama.

How did Roots and The Cosby Show challenge previous sterotypical representations of black people in TV dramas

What does the article say about the represntaion of black policman in programmes such as Miami Vice and Hawaii Five-O?

Useful link to AS Media Studies theory and terminology

http://www.alevelmedia.co.uk/page25.php

Navigate around this site, it's great for theory and applying critical  theory.

Exceelen illustrated list of camera shots and film grammar terminology

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html