Main description:
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.
Table of 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
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.
Table of 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