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Cultures of Representation

Author : Benjamin Fraser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850964
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Representation written by Benjamin Fraser and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries – from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodóvar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood – while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.

Representation

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761954323
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Representation written by Stuart Hall and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-04-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'. Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social contexts and institutional sites; the use of photography in the construction of national identity and culture; other cultures in ethnographic museums; fantasies of the racialized `Other' in popular media, film and image; the construction of masculine identities in discourses of consumer culture and advertising; and the gendering of narratives in television soap operas.

Place/Culture/Representation

Author : James S. Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135860351
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Place/Culture/Representation written by James S. Duncan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author as it is about purported geographical reality. The issue becomes not scientific truth as the end but the interpretation of cultural constructions as the means. Discussing authorial power, discourses of the other, texts and textuality, landscape metaphor, the sites of power-knowledge relations and notions of community and the sense of place, the authors explore the ways in which a more fluid and sensitive geographer's art can help us make sense of ourselves and the landscapes and places we inhabit and think about.

Embodied Modernities

Author : Fran Martin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824829638
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Modernities written by Fran Martin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive referent for the "Chinese body" is thornier than ever. By facilitating fresh dialogue between fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and contemporary Chinese film and cultural studies, Embodied Modernities addresses contemporary Chinese embodiments as they are represented textually and as part of everyday life practices. The book is divided into two sections, each with a dedicated introduction by the editors. The first examines "Thresholds of Modernity" in chapters on Chinese body cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a period of intensive cultural, political, and social modernization that led to a series of radical transformations in how bodies were understood and represented.The second section on "Contemporary Embodiments" explores body representations across the People’s Republic of China,Taiwan, and Hong Kong today. Contributors: Chris Berry, Louise Edwards, Maram Epstein, Larissa Heinrich, Olivia Khoo, Fran Martin, Jami Proctor-Xu, Tze-lan D. Sang, Teri Silvio, Mark Stevenson, Cuncun Wu, Angela Zito, John Zou.

Representation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749257590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (575 download)

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Cultural Moves

Author : Herman Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520241444
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Moves written by Herman Gray and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-02-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the importance of culture in the push for black political power and social recognition and argues the key black cultural practices have been notable in reconfiguring the shape and texture of social and cultural life in the U.S. Drawing on examples from jazz, television, and academia, Gray highlights cultural strategies for inclusion in the dominant culture as well as cultural tactics that move beyond the quest for mere recognition by challenging, disrupting, and unsettling dominant cultural representations and institutions. In the end, Gray challenges the conventional wisdom about the centrality of representation and politics in black cultural production"--Provided by publisher.

Inter/Cultural Communication

Author : Anastacia Kurylo
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452289492
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Inter/Cultural Communication written by Anastacia Kurylo and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a social constructionist framework, Inter/Cultural Communication provides today's students with a rich understanding of how culture and communication affect and effect each other. Weaving multiple approaches together to provide a comprehensive understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of cultural and intercultural communication, this text helps students become more aware of their own identities and how powerful their identities can be in facilitating change—both in their own lives and in the lives of others.

Disability and Digital Television Cultures

Author : Katie Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317627849
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Disability and Digital Television Cultures written by Katie Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television access, representation and reception. Television, as a central medium of communication, has marginalized people with disability through both representation on screen and the lack of accessibility to this medium. With accessibility options becoming available as television is switched to digital transmissions, audience research into television representations must include a corresponding consideration of access. This book provides a comprehensive and critical study of the way people with disability access and watch digital TV. International case studies and media reports are complimented by findings of a user-focused study into accessibility and representation captured during the Australian digital television switchover in 2013-2014. This book will provide a reliable, independent guide to fundamental shifts in media access while also offering insight from the disability community. It will be essential reading for researchers working on disability and media, as well as television, communications and culture; upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in cultural studies; along with general readers with an interest in disability and digital culture.

Self-Representation and Digital Culture

Author : N. Thumim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137265132
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Self-Representation and Digital Culture written by N. Thumim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums.

Cultures of Commerce

Author : E. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137071826
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Commerce written by E. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While historians have explored the impact on workers of changes in American business, the broader impact on other cultural forms, and vice versa, has not been widely studied. This anthology contributes to the debate at the intersection of business history and the study of cultural forms, ranging from material to visual culture to literature.

Culture, Heritage and Representation

Author : Steve Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351946781
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Heritage and Representation written by Steve Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'visual' has long played a crucial role in forming experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. Images convey meaning within a range of practices, including tourism, identity construction, the popularization of the past through a variety of media, and the memorialization of events. However, despite the central role of 'the visual' in these contexts, it has been largely neglected in heritage literature. This edited collection is the first to explore the production, use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage. Drawing on case studies from around the world, it provides a multidisciplinary analysis of heritage representations, combining complex understandings of the 'visual' from a wide range of disciplines, including heritage studies, sociology and cultural studies perspectives. In doing so, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological tools necessary for understanding visual imagery within its cultural context.

Cultural Representation in Native America

Author : Andrew Jolivétte
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0759114145
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Representation in Native America written by Andrew Jolivétte and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape the images of indigenous people. JolivZtte and his co-authors challenge and contest these images, demonstrating how Native representation and identity are at the heart of Native politics and Native activism. In portrayals of a Native Barbie Doll or a racist mascot, disrespect of Native women, misconceptions of mixed race identities, or the commodification of all things 'Indian', the authors reveal how the very existence of Native people continues to be challenged, with harmful repercussions in social and legal policy, not just in popular culture. The authors re-articulate Native history, religion, identity, and oral and literary traditions in ways that allow the true identity and persona of the Native person to be recognized and respected. It is a project that is fundamental to ethnic revitalization and the recognition of indigenous rights in North America. This book is a provocative and essential introduction for students and Native and non-Native people who wish to understand the images and realities of American Indian lifeways in American society.

Visual Cultures of Science

Author : Luc Pauwels
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655121
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Visual Cultures of Science written by Luc Pauwels and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection explores the complex role of visual representation in science.

Autism and Representation

Author : Mark Osteen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135911495
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Autism and Representation written by Mark Osteen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field of Disability Studies have yet to explore it. This volume, the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities, brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films, and clinical discourses, and to explore the connections and demarcations between autistic and "neurotypical" creativity. Using an empathetic scholarship that unites professional rigor with experiential knowledge derived from the contributors’ lives with or as autistic people, the essays address such questions as: In what novel forms does autistic creativity appear, and what unusual strengths does it possess? How do autistic representations--whether by or about autistic people--revise conventional ideas of cognition, creativity, language, (dis)ability and sociability? This timely and important collection breaks new ground in literary and film criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and Disability Studies.

Cultural Realities of Being

Author : Nandita Chaudhary
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134743491
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Realities of Being written by Nandita Chaudhary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often, academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people, this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues, lifting everyday discourse and providing a forum for advancing discussion and dialogue. Nandita Chaudhary, S. Anandalakshmy and Jaan Valsiner bring together contributors from the field of cultural psychology to consider how people living within social groups, regardless of how liberal, are guided by collective reality and interconnected with life circumstances. The book discusses experiences and events in the lives of people of Indian cultures covering topics including family, food, pilgrimages, social dynamics and truth, in order to expand the material on human phenomena under the broad frame of cultural psychology. The book builds upon rich cultural traditions present in India, and precisely because of this focus, the book has much larger implications and relevance to the field and aims to orient the academic reader from around the world to viewing India and Indian society as a valuable area for research. Divided into three sections, the book covers: • Social presentation in culture • Representing relations • Children and youth in culture This book includes commentaries from expert academics from outside of India, providing a bridge between academic reality and cultural discourse and throwing fresh light on the everyday events presented in the text. Cultural Realities of Being will be essential reading for those studying Cross Cultural Psychology as well as those interested in social representation and identity.

Outlaw Culture

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136767908
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Outlaw Culture written by bell hooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can b

Race and Ethnicity

Author : Stephen Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134086660
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Race and Ethnicity written by Stephen Spencer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this completely revised and updated textbook is a critical guide to issues and theories of ‘race’ and ethnicity. It shows how these concepts came into being during colonial domination and how they became central – and until recently, unquestioned – aspects of social identity and division. This book provides students with a detailed understanding of colonial and post-colonial constructions, changes and challenges to race as a source of social division and inequality. Drawing upon rich international case studies from Australia, Guyana, Canada, Malaysia, the Caribbean, Mexico, Ireland and the UK, the book clearly explains the different strands of theory which have been used to explain the dynamics of race. These are critically scrutinised, from biological-based ideas to those of critical race theory. This key text includes new material on changing multiculturalism, immigration and fears about terrorism, all of which are critically assessed. Incorporating summaries, chapter-by-chapter questions, illustrations, exercises and a glossary of terms, this student-friendly text also puts forward suggestions for further project work. Broad in scope, interactive and accessible, this book is a key resource for undergraduate students of 'race' and ethnicity across the social sciences.