describes, Mulvey writes out of a fervor motivated by the history of classical Hollywood film and feminist analysis. That is, while one pleasure might be destroyed in the process of analysis, it is replaced by another. This is in part what Roland Barthes means when he suggests that we bring to the cinema “an amorous distance.” It is also akin to the ambivalence that Christian Metz enacts when he writes, “I have loved the cinema, I no longer love it. I still love it.” Whatever distance or detachment
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Fashion and Its Multi-Cultural Facets Critical Issues Series Editors Dr Robert Fisher Lisa Howard Dr Ken Monteith Advisory Board Karl Spracklen Katarzyna Bronk Jo Chipperfield Ann-Marie Cook Peter Mario Kreuter S Ram Vemuri Simon Bacon Stephen Morris John Parry Ana Borlescu Peter Twohig Kenneth Wilson John Hochheimer A Critical Issues research and publications project. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ The Ethos Hub ‘Fashion’ 2014 Fashion and
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IMAGES IN ADVERTISING: THE NEED FOR A THEORY OF VISUAL RHETORIC In this article, we are dealing with a meaning and representative reality of pictures. In todays world there are many pictures, shown and done in many different ways. We have various kinds of pictures in rich colours and textures. The objective of this article is to reorient the study of advertising images by advocating the development of a theory of visual rhetoric. When we are taking about rhetorical theory, we say that it is
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Analysis of Practitioner Introduction In this essay i plan on exploring different photographers and their backgrounds to explore the images in detail to go with my project unit. The photographers Ralph Eugene Meatyard and The family Album of Lucybelle Carter, Alessandro Mitola and Susan Seubert. Ralph Eugene Meatyard “the idea of a person, a photograph, say, of a young girl with a title ‘Rose Taylor’ or the title ‘Rose’ or no title at all becomes an entirely different thing,” Meatyard once
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In regards to Roland Barthes’ statement that “literature is the question minus the answer”, a reader can find that the central question posed by Shakespeare’s King Lear concerns morality. More specifically, King Lear’s treatment of the question of whether a moral life is necessarily a better life is brought out in the juxtaposition of the characters Edmund and Cordelia, and the universality of King Lear explored through the modern philosophies associated with each. One of the most polarized characters
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Decoding Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding model Stuart Hall is a prominent sociologist and cultural theorist and author of the significantly influential essay Encoding/Decoding; published in 1973 during the time of his position as director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University (Chandler 2001). Encoding/Decoding is a theoretical framework devised to critically examine how society or the hegemonic institutions in society, disseminate messages implanted or ‘encoded’
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Blackface Chic: High Fashion, Racechange and Cultural Tourism Race, Identity, and Public Culture Popular cultural representations, in particular those in the fashion industry, have recently reinvented a historically loaded image in their performances: blackface.1 In the past several years, blackface and other images of physical transformations of race have appeared in a number of high and popular fashion contexts including a “yellowface” fashion show in Shanghai sponsored by Karl
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ABSTRACT." This article proposes a new way to use photographs in ethnographic research. The method builds on earlier examinations of the unique properties of photographic articulation, interpretation and use, employing the inherent ambiguities of photographic imagery. Responses to ethnographic photographs of a rural farm community were recorded during group interview sessions and analyzed in relation to additional ethnographic data gathered in order to study sociocultural continuity and change
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Journal of Visual Culture Murray Thesis: • Social use of digital photography signals a shift in the engagement with the everyday image (less about special/rarefied moments of domestic living, more about immediate/fleeting display/collection of discovery and framing of the small/mundane) • Photography no longer embalmer of time but more alive/immediate/transitory practice/form • Everyday image becomes something that even the amateur can create/comment on with relative authority/ease → breaks
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The circumstance in which semiotics are translated by humans occurs in many different variations. A broad definition comes from Umberto Eco, who said this 'semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign' (Eco 1976, 7). Semiotics undertakes the application of viewing what we accredit as 'signs' in everyday speech, as well as anything which 'stands for' something else. It involves looking at all processes of information’s exchanges as far as signs are involved. Its quite complex
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