MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fetishism, Cultural Studies
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Representation; what is depicted with something accurate or distorted. Stuart says l representation think about in new way. Hall says an image can have many different meaning, theres no guarantee that images r how v think them. People who get influenced by the society represent what gets influenced through the media. Messages work in complex way and always connected with white power operated in society. Interrogation of image: normally asked mind from the suspect, asking hard questions from mind. Intellectual vocation: the notion of ideas matter that they have something to say beyond the academy. Stauart hall"s : visual representation and the contemporary world. He choose visual representation because it s clich . Idea of taking representation to the image is important. There"s some notion already there but media re-represent it. The notion of something depicts which stands for something. In the notion of representation , how the meaning is given , depicted, which stands for.
