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Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series) ISBN: 0761954325 ISBN13: 9780761954323 Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series) By: Edited by Stuart Hall Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd Format: Paperback Our Price: 22.99

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.


Contents:

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


Brief Description:

This text outlines how visual images, language and discourse work as systems of representation . It analyzes questions of meaning, truth, knowledge and power in representation, and the relations between representation, pleasure and fantasy.

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