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Representation : cultural representations and signifying practices / edited by Stuart Hall.

Contributor(s): Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014 | Open UniversityMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Culture, media, and identitiesPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage in association with the Open University, 1997. Description: 400 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN: 0761954317; 0761954325 (pbk.)Subject(s): Culture | Representation (Philosophy)DDC classification: 306 LOC classification: HM101 | .R442 1997Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | WorldCat details | E book Fulltext Summary: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Representation.
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage in association with the Open University, 1997
(OCoLC)607271739

Includes bibliographical references and index.


"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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