Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
- List Price: $83.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Focal Press
- Publish date: 04/08/1997
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This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as systems of representation'.
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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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