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xxvi, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Culture, media and identities |
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Culture, media, and identities.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 4.4.1.Cultural verisimilitude, generic verisimilitude and realism -- 4.5.Media production and struggles for hegemony -- 4.6.Summary -- 5.Genres for Women: The case of soap opera -- 5.1.Genre, soap opera and gender -- 5.1.1.The invention of soap opera -- 5.1.2.Women's culture -- 5.1.3.Soap opera as women's genre -- 5.1.4.Soap opera's binary oppositions -- 5.1.5.Serial form and gender representation -- 5.2.Soap opera's address to the female audience -- 5.2.1.Talk vs action -- 5.2.2.Soap opera's serial world -- 5.3.Textual address and the construction of subjects -- 5.3.1.The ideal spectator -- 5.3.2.Female reading competence -- 5.3.3.Cultural competence and the implied reader of the text -- 5.3.4.The social audience -- 6.Conclusion -- 6.1.Soap opera: a woman's form no more? -- 6.2.Dissolving genre boundaries and gendered negotiations -- References -- Readings for Chapter Six -- Reading A Tania Modleski, T̀he search for tomorrow in today's soap operas' -- |
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Contents note continued: 4.4.Museums and the construction of culture -- 4.5.Colonial spectacles -- 4.6.Summary -- 5.Devising New Models: Museums and their futures -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Anthropology and colonial knowledge -- 5.3.The writing of anthropological knowledge -- 5.4.Collections as partial truths -- 5.5.Museums and contact zones -- 5.6.Art, artefact and ownership -- 6.Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Readings for Chapter Three -- Reading A John Tradescant the younger, extracts from Musaeum Tradescantianum -- Reading B -- Elizabeth A. Lawrence, H̀is 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, P̀aradise' -- Reading E Annie E. Coombes, M̀aterial culture at the crossroads of knowledge: the case of the Benin "bronzes'" -- Reading F John Picton, T̀o see or not to see! That is the question' -- |
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Contents note continued: Reading A Norman Bryson, L̀anguage, reflection and still life' -- Reading B Roland Barthes, T̀he world of wrestling' -- Reading C Roland Barthes, M̀yth today' -- Reading D Roland Barthes, R̀hetoric of the image' -- Reading E Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time -- Reading F Elaine Showalter, T̀he performance of hysteria' -- ch. 2 Recording Reality: Documentary Film And Television Frances Bonner -- 1.Introduction -- 2.What do we Mean by D̀ocumentary'? -- 2.1.Non-fiction texts -- 2.2.Defining documentary -- 3.Types of Documentary -- 3.1.Categorizing documentary -- 3.2.Alternative categories -- 3.3.Ethical documentary filmmaking -- 4.Dramatization and the Documentary -- 4.1.Scripting and re-enactment in the documentary -- 4.2.Docudrama -- 5.Documentary - An historic genre? -- 5.1.P̀ostdocumentary'? -- 5.2.Docusoaps -- 5.3.Reality TV -- 6.Natural History Documentaries -- 6.1.Documenting animal life -- |
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Contents note continued: 7.Conclusion -- References -- Readings for Chapter Two -- Reading A Bill Nichols, T̀he qualities of voice' -- Reading B John Corner, P̀erforming the real: documentary diversions' -- Reading C Derek Bouse, H̀istoria fabulosus' -- ch. 3 The Poetics And The Politics Of Exhibiting Other Cultures Henrietta Lidchi -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Establishing Definitions, Negotiating Meanings, Discerning Objects -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.What is a m̀useum'? -- 2.3.What is an èthnographic museum'? -- 2.4.Objects and meanings -- 2.5.The uses of text -- 2.6.Questions of context -- 2.7.Summary -- 3.Fashioning Cultures: The poetics of exhibiting -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Introducing Paradise -- 3.3.Paradise regained -- 3.4.Structuring Paradise -- 3.5.Paradise: the exhibit as artefact -- 3.6.The myths of Paradise -- 3.7.Summary -- 4.Captivating Cultures: The politics of exhibiting -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Knowledge and power -- 4.3.Displaying others -- |
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Contents note continued: Reading B Sean Nixon, T̀echnologies of looking: retailing and the visual' -- ch. 6 Genre And Gender: The Case Of Soap Opera Christine Gledhill with Vicky Ball -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Representation and Media Fictions -- 2.1.Fiction and everyday life -- 2.2.Fiction as entertainment -- 2.3.But is it good for you? -- 3.Mass Culture and Gendered Culture -- 3.1.Women's culture and men's culture -- 3.2.Images of women vs real women -- 3.3.Entertainment as a capitalist industry -- 3.4.Dominant ideology, hegemony and cultural negotiation -- 3.5.The gendering of cultural forms: high culture vs mass culture -- 4.Genre, Representation and Soap Opera -- 4.1.The genre system -- 4.1.1.The genre product -- 4.1.2.Genre and mass-produced fiction -- 4.2.Genre as standardization and differentiation -- 4.3.The genre product as text -- 4.3.1.Genres and binary differences -- 4.3.2.Genre boundaries -- 4.4.Signification and reference -- |
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Contents note continued: Reading B Charlotte Brunsdon, C̀rossroads: notes on soap opera' -- Reading C Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn, Ẁhy not Wife Swap?' |
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Contents note continued: Reading D Kobena Mercer, R̀eading racial fetishism' -- ch. 5 Exhibiting Masculinity Sean Nixon -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Conceptualizing Masculinity -- 2.1.Plural masculinities -- 2.2.Thinking relationally -- 2.3.Invented categories -- 2.4.Summary -- 3.Discourse and Representation -- 3.1.Discourse, power/knowledge and the subject -- 4.Visual Codes of Masculinity -- 4.1.St̀reet style' -- 4.2.Ìtalian American' -- 4.3.C̀onservative Englishness' -- 4.4.Summary -- 5.Spectatorship and Subjectivization -- 5.1.Psychoanalysis and subjectivity -- 5.2.Spectatorship -- 5.3.The spectacle of masculinity -- 5.4.The problem with psychoanalysis and film theory -- 5.5.Techniques of the self -- 6.Consumption and Spectatorship -- 6.1.Sites of representation -- 6.2.Just looking -- 6.3.Spectatorship, consumption and the ǹew man' -- 7.Conclusion -- References -- Readings for Chapter Five -- Reading A Steve Neale, M̀asculinity as spectacle' -- |
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Contents note continued: ch. 4 The Spectacle Of The òther' Stuart Hall -- 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Heroes or villains? -- 1.2.Why does d̀ifference' matter? -- 2.Racializing the Òther' -- 2.1.Commodity racism: Empire and the domestic world -- 2.2.Meanwhile, down on the plantation ... -- 2.3.Signifying racial d̀ifference' -- 3.Staging Racial D̀ifference': Ànd the melody lingered on ...' -- 3.1.Heavenly bodies -- 4.Stereotyping as a Signifying Practice -- 4.1.Representation, difference and power -- 4.2.Power and fantasy -- 4.3.Fetishism and disavowal -- 5.Contesting a Racialized Regime of Representation -- 5.1.Reversing the stereotypes -- 5.2.Positive and negative images -- 5.3.Through the eye of representation -- 6.Conclusion -- References -- Readings for Chapter Four -- Reading A Anne McClintock, Sòap and commodity spectacle' -- Reading B Richard Dyer, Àfrica' -- Reading C Sander Gilman, T̀he deep structure of stereotypes' -- |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Work Of Representation Stuart Hall -- 1.Representation, Meaning and Language -- 1.1.Making meaning, representing things -- 1.2.Language and representation -- 1.3.Sharing the codes -- 1.4.Theories of representation -- 1.5.The language of traffic lights -- 1.6.Summary -- 2.Saussure's Legacy -- 2.1.The social part of language -- 2.2.Critique of Saussure's model -- 2.3.Summary -- 3.From Language to Culture: Linguistics to semiotics -- 3.1.Myth today -- 4.Discourse, Power and the Subject -- 4.1.From language to discourse -- 4.2.Historicizing discourse: discursive practices -- 4.3.From discourse to power/knowledge -- 4.4.Summary: Foucault and representation -- 4.5.Charcot and the performance of hysteria -- 5.Where is t̀he Subject'? -- 5.1.How to make sense of Velasquez' Las Meninas -- 5.2.The subject of/in representation -- 6.Conclusion: Representation, meaning and language reconsidered -- References -- Readings for Chapter One -- |
| Summary |
This book is the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question and critically analyze institutional and media texts and images. This second edition covers the emergence of new technologies and formats of representation, from the internet and the digital revolution to reality TV. Proving an indispensible resource for students and teachers in cultural and media studies |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Representation (Philosophy)
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Social perception.
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| Author |
Evans, Jessica, editor of compilation
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Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014, editor of compilation
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Nixon, Sean, 1966- editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2012950346 |
| ISBN |
1849205477 (hardback) |
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1849205639 (paperback) |
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9781849205474 |
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9781849205634 (paperback) |
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