Body-Representation & the Construction of Visual Meanings: a few interpretations

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Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Anabela
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/2976
Resumo: This paper focuses on the body-image discourses currently present in society as I felt it was important to propose a clear notion of the state of the subject today. Positioned in the interface between culture and body, the emphasis on the meanings of body (re)presentations is important since the ways of representing the body have always been implicitly linked with vision, language, perception, cognition, identity, social and cultural involvement, legitimation, difference and plasticity, providing incredible material for social researchers to work with. The associated interpretations, moreover, fall within the aims of social theory and culture. Thus this paper looks at the original – and always interesting – field of body-representations and the implications on the level of their visual meaning, uncovering questions and specific realities usually accepted as natural, though they are in fact naturalized. It enhances the use of discourse and visual analysis to uncover an understanding of those realities and meanings.
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title Body-Representation & the Construction of Visual Meanings: a few interpretations
spellingShingle Body-Representation & the Construction of Visual Meanings: a few interpretations
Pereira, Anabela
Body representation
Meaning
Discourse
Visual Analysis
title_short Body-Representation & the Construction of Visual Meanings: a few interpretations
title_full Body-Representation & the Construction of Visual Meanings: a few interpretations
title_fullStr Body-Representation & the Construction of Visual Meanings: a few interpretations
title_full_unstemmed Body-Representation & the Construction of Visual Meanings: a few interpretations
title_sort Body-Representation & the Construction of Visual Meanings: a few interpretations
author Pereira, Anabela
author_facet Pereira, Anabela
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pereira, Anabela
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Body representation
Meaning
Discourse
Visual Analysis
topic Body representation
Meaning
Discourse
Visual Analysis
description This paper focuses on the body-image discourses currently present in society as I felt it was important to propose a clear notion of the state of the subject today. Positioned in the interface between culture and body, the emphasis on the meanings of body (re)presentations is important since the ways of representing the body have always been implicitly linked with vision, language, perception, cognition, identity, social and cultural involvement, legitimation, difference and plasticity, providing incredible material for social researchers to work with. The associated interpretations, moreover, fall within the aims of social theory and culture. Thus this paper looks at the original – and always interesting – field of body-representations and the implications on the level of their visual meaning, uncovering questions and specific realities usually accepted as natural, though they are in fact naturalized. It enhances the use of discourse and visual analysis to uncover an understanding of those realities and meanings.
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