The Matter Of Images by Richard Dyer
A probing collection of essays that examines how visual images produce meaning and shape social identities and power relations; it argues that images are both material and ideological, showing how film, photography, advertising and celebrity circulate representations of race, gender, sexuality and class while also structuring pleasure and desire. Drawing on semiotics, psychoanalysis and cultural history, the work analyzes spectatorship, the invisibility of whiteness, and the political effects of visual pleasure, arguing that close attention to images reveals how they both reflect and actively construct social hierarchies and possibilities for resistance.
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- 1993
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