Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

by Stuart Hall, Jessica Evans, Sean Nixon

Book Overview

This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as 'systems of representation'. Combining examples with activities and selected readings it offers a unique resource for teachers and students in cultural studies and related fields as an introduction to this complex and central theme.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761954325
• ISBN13: 9780761954323
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

learning about yourself and others

I read this text for an intro class to Cultural Studies, and I really enjoyed it. Hall discusses the issues of race, gender, and class in our society in many interpretations within this text. He shows how all these three are interconnected, and does so in a fascinating way. The question of how did we become the way we are in society is addressed in various ways through different representations: the media, culture, and ourselves. A lot of historical aspects is presented in this text to give the reader more of an answer to the previous question. This text is great for someone who is into cultural studies, or anyone who is interested in just learning more about themselves and making sense of the society around them.