Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying PracticesStuart Hall 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. |
Contents
I | 1 |
| 13 | |
IV | 15 |
V | 30 |
VI | 36 |
VII | 41 |
VIII | 52 |
IX | 59 |
XXV | 219 |
XXVI | 233 |
XXVII | 243 |
XXVIII | 251 |
XXIX | 263 |
XXX | 270 |
| 285 | |
XXXIII | 287 |
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