Week 6-Identities and body politics (individual identities)- Analysis of a set text

Analysis of a set text

Find a photograph OR a print advertisement OR a painting OR a movie poster

Address the following questions (300 words) using a semiotics approach (try not to asnwer the question)

  1. In particular visual image of the body, What signifiers can you identify ? (pay close attention to gesture, eye contact, posture, clothing, physical type, size, colours etc)
  2. What do the signifierd mean? In other words, what is signified?
  3. How are racial and/or gender difference constructed on and through the body?
  4. How is the ‘hierarchy of difference’ constructed through the visual image?