Signifier

According to the semiotics theory found by Saussure, the relation between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary. There is no reason why the letters produce exactly the image. Semiotics is the language expression expresses the discursive process, rather than a static structural relationships or rules. As Roland Barthes mentioned in his book “Mythologies”, “On the one hand, an ideological critique of the language of so-called mass culture; on the other, an initial semiological dismantling…

I am a white femme presenting human. I don’t feel like it is my place to define what being black means- or on the other hand, what it doesn’t mean. By no means do I want to broaden the culture of stereotyping folks based off of their own personal identity. In our class this semester we have talked at length about black artists who have been judged based off of how black they are or how black they aren’t. It isn’t easy to define “what black is, and what black ain’t”. Everyone has a different…

On this assignment, I would like to write an essay about the definition of culture and subculture following by the two-supported major theory that I would be using, One of the theory I would be using is Psychoanalysis theory as it would be focusing on the aspect of DreamWorks as discussed in Freud’s book Interpretation of Dream (Freud, 2009) and Followed by Frankfurt school (Adorno & Hokheimer, 2009) in the discourse of culture. (Williams, 2009) According to Williams (Williams, 2009:32) culture…

Regardless of cultural multiplicity and diversity in literary traditions; writers all over the world are usually involved in a give and take -relationship; they either draw on each others or get impacted by writers who do not necessarily share the same culture but rather the same experience. Working on this assumption, the purpose of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of the central symbol in two poems having almost the same title: The first one is the Eagle which was written by the…

VISUAL CULTURE – THE WINTER TALE Zhaoshen Wang (Johnson Wang) / WAN16475335 Anthropomorphic advertisement is a better way to promote penetration and sales of the new products through visual attraction and imagination rather than literal adverts. The term ‘visual culture’ encompasses many media forms ranging from fine art to popular film and television to advertisement to visual data in fields such as the sciences, law, and medicine. (Sturken & Cartwright, 2009, P.1). Visual culture looks at…

masculinity and femininity within a patriarchal society, the origins and history of the gaze theory and its implications in the modern world. In “Doing Gender In Media, Art and Culture” Rosemarie Buikema explains semiotics, signifiers and signified in relation to gender. The signifier (male, female) is signified with attributes and qualities, for example the female body is often associated with nature, passivity, beauty…

Rose ends up appearing to Schalken and her dad Gerard dressed in a strange white garment and says: "the dead and the living never can be one” (ambiguous signifier here) and then begs for protection. Both men attempt to protect her but end up failing as she vanishes from behind a locked door, never to reappear again. However, years later while in Rotterdam for his father's funeral, Shalken has Rose appear in…

any mention of specific Black or Latina cast members. Excluding The producers put the web series through a racist discourse that perpetuates white supremacy and domination over representation of Black and Brown women. This highlights an important signifier that not only comments on who they are catering to, but who is doing the catering. Since the producers are the one who create the world that is Orange is the New Black, they determine where the meanings are derived from. They create the…

Magic and folklore plays a large role in African culture and in the magic of this object, but likewise it is also built from the “signifiers of European witchcraft” therefore resulting in a combination of magical witchcraft and ethnicity (Purkiss, 264). In the same way that magic has the ability to illuminate what it wants one to see while darkening the simplicity of its reality, Iago…

Monica Ali’s novel brick lane burst on to the world stage in 2003 to much acclaim as well as much controversy, at the time of its release many British Bangladeshi were upset with the books portals of them. The novel attempts to depict the troubled and realistic immigration and assimilation process for Bangladeshi immigrants to western society. The novel follows the life of Nazneen and her experience as well as the experiences of other Bangladeshi immigrants as they attempt to assimilate in to…