Week 4: Stuart Hall- The Spectacle of the other
Key points from the reading: Hall explores ethical and racial difference how the media affects this in the contemporary world. Hall also analyses how difference can create certain emotions, attitudes and feelings in the viewer. Images are often open to interpretation as they are usually ambiguous or unusual, there is no right or wrong answer. Despite this, Hall explains that every spectator will always wonder what the preferred interpretation is; what is the meaning that the photographer aimed to create? Hall explored points such as: Stereotypes Otherness Power Fantasy Hall suggests that we use stereotypes to create a social order, by categorising people into types and difference we are excluding all other features of a person.



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