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Book Title            : Representation – Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

Author                  : (Editor) Stuart Hall

Year                       : 1997

Representation – the production of meaning through language, discourse and image – occupies a central place in current studies on culture. This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive treatment of how visual images, language and discourse work as ‘system 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.

This book can be accessed in ESAC.