This Broad-ranging Text Offers A Comprehensive Treatment Of How Visual Images, Language And Discourse Work As 'systems Of Representation'. Individual Chapters Explain A Variety Of Approaches To Representation, Bringing To Bear Concepts From Semiotic, Discursive, Psychoanalytic, Anthropological, Sociological, Feminist, Art-historical And Foucauldian Models Of Representation. They 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; The Poetics And Politics Of Exhibiting 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; The Gendering Of Narratives In Television Soap Operas. The Book Discusses Contested And Critical Questions Of Meaning, Truth, Knowledge And Power In Representation, And The Relations Between Representation, Pleasure And Fantasy. Combining Illustrative Examples With Activities And Selected Readings, Accessible But Not Simplified, It Offers A Unique Resource For Teachers And Students In Cultural Studies And Related Fields As An Introduction To This Complex And Central Theme.--jacket. The Work Of Representation / Stuart Hall -- Representing The Social : France And Frenchness In Post-war Humanist Photography / Peter Hamilton -- The Poetics And The Politics Of Exhibiting Other Cultures / Henrietta Lidchi -- The Spectacle Of The Other / Stuart Hall -- Exhibiting Masculinity / Sean Nixon -- Genre And Gender : The Case Of Soap Opera / Christine Gledhill. Edited By Stuart Hall. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

zlib/Languages/Grammar, dictionaries & phrasebooks/Stuart Hall/Representation :Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices_2591567.pdf

Stuart Hall, STUART HALL, Sean Nixon, Jessica Evans

edited by Stuart Hall

Sage in association with the Open University

SAGE Publications, Incorporated

AltaMira Press

Corwin Press

Culture, media, and identities, London, 2003, ©1997

Culture, media, and identities, Repr, London, 2010

United States, United States of America

April 8, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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