1. Teaching Jessica Jones Wendy Elrick AMES Conference 2016

2. Superheroes on Television How many can you name? What do they have in common? How do they differ from films? One of the places I always start is with genre. It allows pupils to start to draw out conventions as well as their prior knowledge. Common answers? Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Other comic adaptations sometimes – The Walking Dead. Older programmes such as Wonder Woman and Batman from the 1960s…

3. The Trailer

4. Essential Information Created by Melissa Rosenberg Based on comic series by Brian Bendis and Michael Gaydos Season 1 released worldwide November 2015 Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, Rachael Taylor as Trish Walker Produced by ABC Studios, Marvel Studios, Netflix and Tall Girls Productions Distributed by Netflix

5. The Comic Book

6. The Streaming Revolution

7. Is it television? What makes television television? How do we define the form? What are the issues here?

8. Marvel Cinematic Universe

9. Marvel Television

10. Institution

11. Audience

12. Opening Credits

13. Representation: Jessica

14. Representation: Kilgrave

15. Representation: Trish

16. Representation: Hogarth

17. Representation: Luke Cage

18. Representation: Setting

19. Language

20. Exam Question Media Content in Context Audience responses are influenced by the use of language codes and other aspects of media content. Analyse how this could apply to media content you have studied. In your response you must: a)analyse how language has been used to create meaning in the content; (10) b)analyse how categories and/or narrative and/or representations have been used in the content; (10) c)analyse how different audiences might respond to the media content you have referenced. (10)