Representation cultural representations and signifying practices
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Sage in association with the Open University
1997 (2003 reprinting)
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| Series: | Culture, media and identities
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Add Tag | Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 400 pages illustrations 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0761954325 0761954317 (cased) 9780761954323 |
Understanding representation