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)
- 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)
- What do the signifierd mean? In other words, what is signified?
- How are racial and/or gender difference constructed on and through the body?
- How is the ‘hierarchy of difference’ constructed through the visual image?