Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

✍ Scribed by Stuart Hall

Publisher: Sage Publications & Open University
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 398
Series: Culture, Media and Identities Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 racializedOther' 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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