Understanding Representation

Informationen zum Autor Jen Webb is Professor of Creative Communication at the University of Canberra. With Tony Schirato, she edits the Understanding Contemporary Culture book series. Klappentext Extremely well written, grounded and contemporary introduction to representation. Zusammenfassung Extremely well written! grounded and contemporary introduction to representation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Resemblance, Representation and Reality Language and Representation Representation and the Subject/The Subject of Representation Representation and the Political World Representation in the Consciousness Industries: Art and the Mass Media Conclusion: Representation and Ethics: The Problem of the Gap

List of contents

Introduction
Resemblance, Representation and Reality
Language and Representation
Representation and the Subject/The Subject of Representation
Representation and the Political World
Representation in the Consciousness Industries: Art and the Mass Media
Conclusion: Representation and Ethics: The Problem of the Gap

Report

'This is an extraordinarily lucid book. I am not sure that there is anyone who can do this sort of thing better than Jen Webb. It is a gift to students; extremely accessible yet complex and sophisticated in its treatment of theories and concepts of representation' - Jim McGuigan, Loughborough University

Product details

• Authors: Jen Webb, Jenn Webb, Jennifer Webb, Professor Jennifer Webb, Webb Jenn
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9781412919197
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-1919-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Culture series; Understanding Contemporary Cul; Understanding Contemporary Culture series; Understanding Contemporary Cul
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge