Choose a particular media and cultural form or practice. Explain how you might locate your chosen example within a circuit of culture‚ and identify the sort of issues you might raise at each point on the circuit‚ drawing on your knowledge of the questions‚ problems and approaches explored on the module during the year. This illustrative example works around the material explored in the very first session on this module‚ and is designed to provide you with some ideas about how to approach this
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Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Audience and Representation Analysis My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was a programme broadcasted on channel 4. At it’s peak Big Fat Gypsy Wedding drew in an audience viewing of up to 8.7 million people‚ making it Channel 4’s eighth highest viewed programme. There are many different opinions as to what makes the programme so popular‚ that it is able to draw in audiences of half a dozen million and more week in week out. One theory as to why the programme is so popular could be due
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How does Detective Mills subvert the binary opposition good and bad in the film Se7en? Introduction In this essay‚ I am going to be analysing a character from the thriller film ‘Se7en’ (directed by David Fincher). The character of my choice is one of the lead roles of this film‚ Detective Mills. This character is portrayed as a homicide detective‚ taking the place of experienced retiring detective Somerset. The theoretical analysis I have chosen to use is the use of binary oppositions‚ particularly
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Hall (2003) proposed that culture that plays a primary role in how meaning is constructed. A basic genetic feature of human beings is the ability to classify‚ and a system of classification (the way in which we can conceptually group information) is learnt in society. Therefore‚ culture consists of our shared conceptual maps. ’Translatability is not given by nature nore fixed by the gods. It is the result of a set of social conventions.’ (Hall 2003). Over time‚ speakers of a culture have come
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Foucault ’s Las Meninas and art-historical methods. Michel Foucault ’s study of Velazquez ’s Las Meninas (1) was first published in the volume Les Mots et les choses in 1966 which was followed‚ in 1970‚ by the English translation titled The Order of Things. In "Las Meninas"‚ which is the title of the opening chapter of The Order of Things‚ Foucault focused on the artwork itself as though it were before him‚ describing in extraordinary detail what he saw. His seemingly unobtrusive actions--looking
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References: Wilfred‚ Guerrin. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. New York. Oxford University Press. 1999 Begley‚ Louis. Defenition of Anti- Hero. 2000 Prince‚ Gerald. Dictionary of Narratology. Accessed on 7 May 2013 Module on Barthes : On the Five Code. Accessed on 7 May 2013 The Adaptation from the National Library of Medicine."Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature" Retrieved from websites : www.duluth.lib.mn.us
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From Francesca Woodman and the Mirror Stage In Douglas Crimp’s article the Photographic Activity of Postmodernism there are several terms that have been brought up over and over again. Presence is one of them‚ “presence that is only through the absence that we know to be the condition of representation.” It reminds me of one of my favorite photographers --- Francesca Woodman. She once said that “I allow you to see what you couldn’t see --- the inner force of one’s body.” She recreates
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G. Parrinder “Sex”: (OED) i) divisions between organic beings into male and female ii) biological distinction iii) physical union ⎝ sexual intercourse Sexuality: ← Innate ← Context-specific ← Preference Gender: ← Biological or role ← Complex and changeable Stets and Burke ← “Femininity and masculinity - or one’s gender identity - refers to the degree to which persons see themselves as masculine or feminine given what it means to be a man or woman
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through the facilitator and the learner parallels Sontag’s concept of framing and representation In Plato’s Cave‚ and Barthes idea of posing and theater in Camera Lucida. Sontag and Barthes’s understandings of photography’s “reality” intersect in that their notion of the object in photography being real and not real. Thus it is interesting to note the relationship between Milgram with Barthes and Sontag in terms of their ideas on photography and his experiment. The facilitator and the learner staging of
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However‚ the notions of langue and parole disputes this idea. According to Barthes in 1984‚ "It [la langue] is the social part of language‚ the individual cannot himself either create or modify it". Furthermore‚ Ferdinand de Saussure’s work on structuralism and semiotics demonstrates the subjectivity of language and can be said to have sewn the seeds for modern concepts of intertextuality (such as those developed by Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva). Intertextuality challenges the idea of a text’s ability
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