Representation
Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
Published on 8. April 1997
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-7619-5431-6 (ISBN)
Description
This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as 'systems of representation'. Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social contexts and institutional sites; the use of photography in the construction of national identity and culture; other cultures in ethnographic museums; fantasies of the racialized 'Other' in popular media, film and image; the construction of masculine identities in discourses of consumer culture and advertising; and the gendering of narratives in television soap operas.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations (some col.), facsims., ports.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-5431-6 (9780761954316)
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Content
The Work of Representation - Stuart Hall Representing the Social - Peter Hamilton France and Frenchness in Post-War Humanist Photography The Poetics and Politics of Exhibiting Other Cultures - Henrietta Lidchi The Spectacle of the 'Other' - Stuart Hall Exhibiting Masculinity - Sean Nixon Genre and Gender - Christine Gledhill The Case of Soap Opera