CRI385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metonymy, High Standard Manufacturing Company
21 Jan 2017
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Jan 19 2017 (l03) social effect of representations. If newspaper article photocopy the newspaper article. If internet source, use screenshots, not printable version. Article about crime, criminal justice, authority . You can talk about how some things are framed i. e. , this image makes it look like women are always victims, women are stereotypically weak. Get into the mechanics of how things are being communicated, and what. You don"t need to explain terminology that"s not an analysis just talk about signifier, talk about signifier, talk about metaphors, talk about myths. Don"t say their important, just straight into the analysis, what is it communicating and how. Signs, signifier and signified, systems of signs, mythic connotation, connotation and denotation, binary oppositions explicit or implicit (female vs. man, police and public, criminal and non-criminal, stuff framed in oppositional terms) context, content, and format. Format overall structure 1 big photograph, 1 big text, print, font.
