Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
- ISBN-10
- 0761954325
- ISBN-13
- 9780761954323
- Series
- Representation
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-04-08
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Author
- Stuart Hall
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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Introduction to Representation Theory
By Pavel I. Etingof, Oleg Golberg, Sebastian HenselThe goal of this book is to give a ``holistic'' introduction to representation theory, presenting it as a unified subject which studies representations of associative algebras and treating the representation theories of groups, Lie algebras ...
-
Representation and Behavior
By Fred KeijzerThey are used as theoretical components within an explanation of a person's outwardly visible behavior. In this book Keijzer investigates the usefulness of representation for behavioral explanation, irrespective of mental issues.
-
The Challenge of Congressional Representation
By Richard F. FennoThe Challenge of Congressional Representation offers an up-close-and-personal look at the complex relationship between members of Congress and their constituents back home.
-
Reclaiming Representation: Contemporary Advances in the Theory of Political Representation
By Monica Brito VieiraThis volume gathers together chapters by key contributors to the representative turn, organizing them into sections that exemplify the main approaches to re-conceptualizing democratic representation (deliberative, constructivist and ...
-
Representation Theory: A First Course
By Joe Harris, William FultonEngel's Theorem and Lie's Theorem We will now prove the statement made above about representations of solvable Lie algebras always being upper ... of V. Then there exists a nonzero vector v e V such that X(v) = 0 for all X e g.
-
The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion
By Charles O. Nussbaum... 306nll, 310n38, 327n53, 338n6 Durham, William D., 9, 152, 332nl8, 332nl9, 332n20, 333n27, 333n28 Dvorak, Antonin, ... Catherine Z., 93, 122, 305nl8, 309n36, 322n8, 323nl2, 327n49 Eliot, T. S., 231, 234 Else, Gerald, 352n52 Emotion, ...
-
Violence and the Limits of Representation
By G. Matthews, S. GoodmanViolence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in the Arts and Humanities can offer fresh ...
-
Technologies of Human Rights Representation
By James Dawes, Alexandra S. MooreAnalyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focuse on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.
-
Women's Political Participation and Representation in Asia: Obstacles and Challenges
By Kazuki IwanagaAiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.
-
Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England
By Peter Erickson, Clark HulseAn interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in...