The term 'representation' is one of the many key areas in Media and Cultural studies in relation to the concept of identity and how it is formed.
Representation refers to the way people, places etc are portrayed, especially in context of the media and how they are viewed 의해 the audience, which is us. Because they are representations, this means therefore that characters and people on TV and film are branded, shaped, dressed and shown as they are on screen 의해 the producers. In studying these representations, we are decoding them and then drawing on a range of meanings- be it fictional 또는 real;...
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