Representation

Highly anticipated Second Edition of one of the most popular and influential books ever written in media and cultural studies. A genuine classic, expertly updated for a new generation of students and researchers.

THE WORK OF REPRESENTATION - Stuart HallRepresentation, Meaning and Language Making Meaning, Representing Things Language and Representation Sharing the Codes Theories of Representation The Language of Traffic Lights SummarySaussure¿s Legacy The Social Part of Language Critique of Saussure¿s Model SummaryFrom Language to Culture: Linguistics to Semiotics Myth TodayDiscourse, Power and the Subject From Language to Discourse Historicizing Discourse: Discursive Practices From Discourse to Power/Knowledge Summary: Foucault and Representation Charcot and the Performance of HysteriaWhere is the ¿Subject¿? How to Make Sense of Velasquez¿ Las Meninas The Subject of/in RepresentationConclusion: Representation, Meaning and Language Reconsidered READING A: Norman Bryson, ¿Language, reflection and still life¿ READING B: Roland Barthes, ¿The world of wrestling¿ READING C: Roland Barthes, ¿Myth today¿ READING D: Roland Barthes, ¿Rhetoric of the image¿ READING E: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, New reflections on the revolution of our time READING F: Elaine Showalter, ¿The performance of hysteriäRECORDING REALITY: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND TELEVISION - Frances Bonner IntroductionWhat Do We Mean By ¿Documentary¿? Non-fiction Texts Defining DocumentaryTypes of Documentary Categorising Documentary Alternative Categories Ethical Documentary Film-makingDramatisation and the Documentary Scripting and Re-enactment in the Documentary DocudramaDocumentary - An Historic Genre? ¿Postdocumentary¿? Docusoaps Reality TVNatural History Documentaries Documenting Animal LifeConclusion READING A: Nichols Bill, ¿The Qualities of Voice¿ READING B: John Corner, ¿Performing the real: documentary diversions¿ READING C: Derek Bousé, ¿Historia Fabulosus¿THE POETICS AND THE POLITICS OF EXHIBITING OTHER CULTURES - Henrietta LidchiIntroductionEstablishing Definitions, Negotiating Meanings, Discerning Objects Introduction What is a ¿Museum¿? What is an ¿Ethnographic Museum¿? Objects and Meanings The Uses of Text Questions of Context SummaryFashioning Cultures: The Poetics of Exhibiting Introduction Introducing Paradise Paradise Regained Structuring Paradise Paradise: The Exhibit as Artefact The Myths of Paradise SummaryCaptivating Cultures: The Politics of Exhibiting Introduction Knowledge and Power Displaying Others Museums and the Construction of Culture Colonial Spectacles SummaryDevising New Models: Museums and Their Futures Introduction Anthropology and Colonial Knowledge The Writing of Anthropological Knowledge Collections as Partial Truths Museums and Contact Zones Art, Artefact and OwnershipConclusion READING A: John Tradescant the younger, ¿Extracts from the Musaeum Tradescantianum¿ READING B: Elizabeth A. Lawrence, ¿His very silence speaks: the horse who survived Custer¿s Last Stand¿ READING C: Michael O¿Hanlon, ¿Paradise: portraying the New Guinea Highlands¿ READING D: James Clifford, ¿Paradise¿ READING E: Annie E. Coombes, ¿Material culture at the crossroads of knowledge: the case of the Benin "bronzes¿" READING F: John Picton, ¿To see or Not To See! That is the Question¿THE SPECTACLE OF THE ¿OTHER¿ - Stuart HallIntroduction Heroes or Villains? Why Does ¿Difference¿ Matter?Racializing the ¿Other¿ Commodity Racism: Empire and the Domestic World Meanwhile, Down on the Plantation ... Signifying Racial ¿Difference¿Staging Racial ¿Difference¿: ¿And the Melody Lingered On...¿ Heavenly BodiesStereotyping as a Signifying Practice Representation, Difference and Power Power and Fantasy Fetishism and DisavowalContesting a Recialized Regime of Representation Reversing the Stereotypes Positive and Negative Images Through the Eye of RepresentationConclusion READING A: Anne McClintock, ¿Soap and commodity spectacle¿ READING B: Richard Dyer, ¿Africä READING C: Sander Gilman, ¿The deep structure of stereotypes¿ READING D: Kobena Mercer, ¿Reading racial fetishism¿EXHIBITING MASCULINITY - Sean NixonIntroductionConceptualizing Masculinity Plural Masculinities Thinking Relationally Invented Categories Summary Discourse and Representation Discourse, Power/Knowledge and the SubjectVisual Codes of Masculinity ¿Street Style¿ ¿Italian-American¿ ¿Conservative Englishness¿ Summary Spectatorship and Subjectivization Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity Spectatorship The Spectacle of Masculinity The Problem with Psychoanalysis and Film Theory Techniques of the SelfConsumption and Spectatorship Sites of Representation Just Looking Spectatorship, Consumption and the ¿New Man¿Conclusion READING A: Steve Neale, ¿Masculinity as spectacle¿ READING B: Sean Nixon, ¿Technologies of looking: retailing and the visual¿GENRE AND GENDER: THE CASE OF SOAP OPERA - Christine Gledhill with Vicky BallIntroductionRepresentation and Media Fictions Fiction and Everyday Life Fiction as Entertainment But is it Good For You?Mass Culture and Gendered Culture Women¿s Culture and Men¿s Culture Images of Women vs. Real Women Entertainment as a Capitalist Industry Dominant Ideology, Hegemony and Cultural Negotiation The Gendering of Cultural Forms: High Culture vs. Mass CultureGenre, Representation and Soap Opera The Genre System The Genre Product Genre and Mass-produced Fiction Genre as Standardization and Differentiation The Genre Product as Text Genres and Binary Differences Genre Boundaries Signification and Reference Cultural Verisimilitude, Generic Gerisimilitude and Realism Media Production and Struggles for Hegemony SummaryGenres for Women: Te Case of Soap Opera Genre, Soap Opera and Gender The Invention of Soap Opera Women¿s Culture Soap Opera as Women¿s Genre Soap Operäs Binary Oppositions Serial Form and Gender Representation Soap Operäs Address to the Female Audience Talk vs. Action Soap Operäs Serial World Textual Address and the Construction of Subjects The Ideal Spectator Female Reading Competence Cultural Competence and the Implied Reader of the Text The Social AudienceConclusion Soap Opera: A Woman¿s Form No More? Dissolving Genre Boundaries and Gendered Negotiations READING A: Tania Modleski, ¿The search for tomorrow in today¿s soap operas¿ READING B: Charlotte Brunsdon, ¿Crossroads: notes on soap operä READING C: Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn ¿Why not Wife Swap?Index