AMST 285gm Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Blaxploitation, Machismo, Mary Douglas
11 May 2016
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Minority often exposed to binary form of representation. Regime of representation - the whole repertoire of imagery and visual effects through. 3. which difference is represented at any one historical moment. Why does difference matter: linguistic approach - difference is essential to meaning; meaning is relational (i. e. black explained by being the opposite of white. Negative: over-simplified, allows for only 2 options: social approach - everything we say & mean is modified by the interaction & interplay with another person"; meaning needs 2 speakers. Meaning is dialogic (relating to or in the form of dialogue) Negative: meaning cannot be fixed: anthropological/cultural approach - culture depends on giving things meaning by assigning them to different positions within a classificatory system (ex: appetizer vs. dessert) Negative: things that can"t be neatly organized disturb cultural order (ex: mixed people, neither black nor white) Negative: we are never fully unified/whole as subjects. Subjectivities formed through incomplete & unconscious dialogue with.
