CS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cp24, Visual Culture, Roland Barthes
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Lecture 1 monday september 14th: exams: 15-20 mc, short answers, definitions and an essay question (combining. Class notes lectures: midterm: up to chapter 7, final is cumulative (focus on later half of course) Fashion: at a job interview you create a social reality for yourself, attire that you wear conveys a certain message. If you over dress it can be embarrassing (seen as trying too hard) In film women play the role of the gaze : culture sponsors the way we visualize things. Representation: the practice of using things to replace and therefore understand other things, using things to stand in for other things. In some cases representation can create a new result from its effects. Ideas behind the concepts of hall and saussure. Sign: peirce: semiosis connection between signs, objects and meanings, nfl symbols surrounding first nations people, definitions are dependent on.