Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780761954323 (0761954325)
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English