Research questions such as why fairy tales often begin with a mother's death are an example of the analysis of media content stemming from gramsci's work and known as:

I believe the answer is: textual analysis

Textual analysis is a method communication that is very common to be used on research to interpret the characteristics of a visual message. (usually written in text) The main purpose of this analysis is to correctly determine, the content, functions, and structure of the message.