Representation

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THE WORK OF REPRESENTATION
Representation, Meaning and Language
Making Meaning, Representing Things

Language and Representation

Sharing the Codes

Theories of Representation

The Language of Traffic Lights

Summary

Saussure's Legacy
The Social Part of Language

Critique of Saussure's Model

Summary

From Language to Culture: Linguistics to Semiotics
Myth Today

Discourse, 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 Hysteria

Where is the 'Subject'?
How to Make Sense of Velasquez' Las Meninas


The Subject of/in Representation

Conclusion: 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 hysteria'

Frances Bonner
RECORDING REALITY: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND TELEVISION
Introduction What Do We Mean By 'Documentary'?
Non-fiction Texts

Defining Documentary

Types of Documentary
Categorising Documentary

Alternative Categories

Ethical Documentary Film-making

Dramatisation and the Documentary
Scripting and Re-enactment in the Documentary

Docudrama

Documentary - An Historic Genre?
'Postdocumentary'?

Docusoaps

Reality TV

Natural History Documentaries
Documenting Animal Life

Conclusion
READING A: Nichols Bill, 'The Qualities of Voice'

READING B: John Corner, 'Performing the real: documentary diversions'

READING C: Derek Bousé, 'Historia Fabulosus'

Henrietta Lidchi
THE POETICS AND THE POLITICS OF EXHIBITING OTHER CULTURES
Introduction Establishing 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

Summary

Fashioning Cultures: The Poetics of Exhibiting
Introduction

Introducing Paradise


Paradise Regained

Structuring Paradise


Paradise: The Exhibit as Artefact

The Myths of Paradise


Summary

Captivating Cultures: The Politics of Exhibiting
Introduction

Knowledge and Power

Displaying Others

Museums and the Construction of Culture

Colonial Spectacles

Summary

Devising 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 Ownership

Conclusion
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'

Stuart Hall
THE SPECTACLE OF THE 'OTHER'
Introduction
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 Bodies

Stereotyping as a Signifying Practice
Representation, Difference and Power

Power and Fantasy

Fetishism and Disavowal

Contesting a Recialized Regime of Representation
Reversing the Stereotypes

Positive and Negative Images

Through the Eye of Representation

Conclusion
READING A: Anne McClintock, 'Soap and commodity spectacle'

READING B: Richard Dyer, 'Africa'

READING C: Sander Gilman, 'The deep structure of stereotypes'

READING D: Kobena Mercer, 'Reading racial fetishism'

Sean Nixon
EXHIBITING MASCULINITY
Introduction Conceptualizing Masculinity
Plural Masculinities

Thinking Relationally

Invented Categories

Summary

Discourse and Representation
Discourse, Power/Knowledge and the Subject

Visual 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 Self

Consumption 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'

Christine Gledhill with Vicky Ball
GENRE AND GENDER: THE CASE OF SOAP OPERA
Introduction Representation 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 Culture

Genre, 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

Summary

Genres 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 Opera's Binary Oppositions

Serial Form and Gender Representation

Soap Opera's Address to the Female Audience

Talk vs. Action

Soap Opera's 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 Audience

Conclusion
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 opera'

READING C: Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn 'Why not Wife Swap?

Index