Image and Representation Key Concepts in Media Studies

by Lacey, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780230203358
• ISBN10: 0230203353
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-15
• Publisher: SPRINGER - VERLAG

Summary

Image and Representation (2nd edition) is a clear and straight-talking introduction to the most important concepts in film and media studies. Exploring media language and representation throughout a variety of visual texts, the book offers a balanced, in-depth, guide to the essential theories and key issues

Author Biography

NICK LACEY is Head of Media Studies at Benton Park School in West Yorkshire. He has worked in a variety of media institutions, including Times Newspapers, EMAP and Yorkshire Television.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction to the First Edition	p. 1
Introduction to the Second Edition	p. 4
Introduction to Textual Analysis	p. 6
`Seeing is believing'	p. 6
Interpreting the world around us	p. 6
Non-verbal communication (NVC)	p. 9
Textual analysis	p. 12
Form	p. 13
Mise en scene	p. 18
Making meaning	p. 20
Medium and the message	p. 25
Context and meaning	p. 30
Codes and conventions	p. 32
Analysing still texts	p. 46
Images in sequence	p. 51
Sound	p. 60
Semiotics	p. 63
Introduction to semiotics	p. 63
Saussure	p. 63
C. S. Peirce	p. 73
Barthes	p. 74
Binary oppositions	p. 77
Semiotic analysis: Nokia 232	p. 79
Advanced Textual Analysis	p. 83
Introduction	p. 83
High culture versus low culture	p. 84
Audience readings	p. 87
Intertextuality	p. 95
New media technologies	p. 97
Ideology	p. 100
Hegemony	p. 111
Discourse	p. 114
Alternative texts	p. 125
A history of Western images	p. 137
Representation	p. 146
Introduction	p. 146
Dyer's typography	p. 146
Re-presentation	p. 147
Types and stereotypes	p. 147
Who does the re-presenting?	p. 160
Audience and representation	p. 161
Genre and representation: the Western	p. 165
Propaganda and public relations	p. 173
Representing Gender	p. 190
Introduction	p. 190
Representations of gender	p. 190
Ways of Seeing gender	p. 193
Gender, masquerade and the queering of the gaze	p. 198
Gender in magazines: More and Nuts	p. 206
Female action heroes	p. 214
Cindy Sherman: who are women?	p. 225
Representation and Reality	p. 228
Introduction	p. 228
Defining realism	p. 229
Realism and film	p. 238
Formal realism in documentaries	p. 242
Representing the world in the news	p. 256
Representing the war in Iraq	p. 268
Other representations	p. 271
Conclusion	p. 276
Biblography	p. 278
Index	p. 289
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