SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roland Barthes, Kerry Washington, Miranda Kerr
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The politics of seeing and the practices of looking. Choosing to look and not choosing to look has power. Controversial image of the bodies of children washed up on shore if people are entitled to look, whether it was appropriate to be shown and if the photographer should"ve taken the video or not. A sign can have several meanings and representations. It can vary from culture to culture and individual to individual. Reading signs : roland barthes, denotative meaning literal, descriptive meaning of an image (what our eyes. Images have 3 levels of meanings show us: connotative meaning culturally specific meanings of an image, myth cultural values and beliefs expressed at the level of connotation. We can have different frames or frames that overlap. Denotative meaning: blonde hair, blue eyes, pink lips, blue dress, watch, measurement of hair or waist, looking at camera, hair covering one eye.
