1. Module C – Representation and Text
Elective 2: People and Landscapes

2. In this elective, students…
explore and evaluate various representations of people and landscapes in their prescribed text and other related texts of their own choosing
Representations = pictures / symbols / images / versions / statements / interpretations
People = society / community / family / nations / individuals / groups / race / ethnic group / sub-culture /

3. People and LANDSCAPES
Landscape
noun
All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal:
… “the soft colours of the Northumbrian landscape”…
… “a bleak urban landscape” …
Synonyms: scenery, countryside, topography, country, land, terrain, environment;
outlook, view, prospect, aspect, vista, panorama, perspective, sweep
1.1 A picture representing an area of countryside
1.2 [mass noun] The genre of landscape painting: “he found he could not express himself in the landscape “
1.3 The distinctive features of a sphere of activity: “the event transformed the political landscape”
[as modifier] Denoting a format of printed matter which is wider than it is high: “a landscape presentation displayed the data in a clear and methodical way”
Oxford English Dictionary

4. In this elective, students…
Explore = look closely / unpack / pull apart and see how something works / analyse / detailed study
This is where you need to look a the text in a methodical and technical way
 if it’s a visual text – analyse the details and techniques in the foreground – the mid-ground – and the background of the image
 it it’s a written text – analyse the context – the language features – the textual forms – and the purpose of the writing
WHICH ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IN CREATING THE IMPORTANT IDEAS, VALUES, CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN THE TEXT (visual, written or multi-media)
Evaluate = interpret / assess / weigh up / discuss pros and cons / consider all perspectives

5. Explore and evaluate…

6. In this elective, students…
consider the ways (the techniques) in which texts represent the relationship between the lives of individuals or groups and real, remembered or imagined landscapes
RELATIONSHIP = connection / link / association / correlation / way to things fit together…
Is there a
Close relationship?
Distant relationship?
Co-dependent relationship?
Complex relationship?
Obvious relationship?
Tenuous relationship?
Destructive relationship?
Productive relationship?
and so on…

7. real, remembered or imagined landscapes
Actual
Authentic
Genuine
Physical
Remembered
Memorised
Recollected
Nostalgic
Romanticised
Imagined
Fictional
Abstract
Fantasy
Visualised

8. In this elective, students…
analyse representations of people’s experience of particular landscapes and their significance for the individual or society more broadly
Landscapes = sceneries / lands / settings / sites / environments / geographies / terrains / ecosystem

9. “…people’s experience…”
Personal
Social
Cultural
Historical
Local
National
International

10. In this elective, students…
develop their understanding of how the relationship between various textual forms, media of production and language choices influences and shapes meaning.
FORM
MEDIA
LFFs
PURPOSE +
INTENDED
AUDIENCE

11. In this elective, students…
develop their understanding of how the relationship between various textual forms, media of production and language choices influences and shapes meaning.
Ideas
Values
Attitudes
Beliefs
Characters
Events
Bodies of knowledge
PURPOSE +
INTENDED
AUDIENCE
FORM
MEDIA
LFFs

12. Contemporary- Postmodernist period
ROMANTIC PERIOD
Romanticism (Romantic reading)
1798 – 1832
reaction against the industrial revolution and The Enlightenment
Key elements? – sentimentality, power of nature, beauty in nature, the individual, the ‘danger’ of unethical science and “facts”
The industrial revolution
Victorian period
WWI & II / Social upheaval / communist Soviet Russia
Modernist period
1950-present
The ‘pill’ / “red terror”
Postmodernist period
Contemporary- Postmodernist period
1970-present
Internet / consumerism / globalisation

13. Individualism