Representation / edited by Stuart Hall, Jessica Evans and Sean Nixon

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Stuart Hall -- 1. The work of representation / Stuart Hall: Representation, Meaning and Language ; Saussure's Legacy ; From Language to Culture: Linguistics to Semiotics ; Discourse, Power and the Subject ; Where is the 'Subject'? ; Conclusion: Representation, Meaning and Language reconsidered ; References -- 2. Recording reality: documentary film and television / Frances Bonner: Introduction ; What Do We Mean By 'Documentary'? ; Types of Documentary ; Dramatisation and the Documentary ; Documentary - An Historic Genre? ; Natural History Documentaries ; Conclusion ; References -- 3. The poetics and the politics of exhibiting other cultures / Henrietta Lidchi: Introduction ; Establishing Definitions, Negotiating Meanings, Discerning Objects ;
Fashioning Cultures: The Poetics of Exhibiting ; Captivating Cultures: The Politics of Exhibiting ; Devising New Models: Museums and Their Futures ; Conclusion -- 4. The spectacle of the 'other' / Stuart Hall: Introduction ; Racializing the 'Other' ; Staging Racial difference': 'And the Melody Lingered On...' ; Stereotyping as a Signifying Practice ; Contesting a Recialized Regime of Representation ; Conclusion ; References -- 5. Exhibiting masculinity / Sean Nixon: Introduction ; Conceptualizing Masculinity ; Discourse and Representation ; Visual Codes of Masculinity ; Spectatorship and Subjectivization ; Consumption and Spectatorship ; Conclusion -- 6. Genre and gender: the case of soap opera / Christine Gledhill, Vicky Ball: Introduction ; Representation and Media Fictions ; Mass Culture and Gendered Culture ; Genre, Representation and Soap Opera ; Genres for Women: Te Case of Soap Opera ; Conclusion ; Index