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Vision and Power:John Fiske's Theory of Visual Culture

ZHANG Hui   

  1. (School of literature and Media,China Three Gorges University,Yichang 443002,Hubei China)
  • Online:2018-09-01 Published:2018-07-29

Abstract: Fiske applies the theory of power struggle to the analysis of mass media such as television,surveillance cameras and MTV,reveals the dominance of authority ideology in these visual media,and explores the resistant power of mass reading in the post-modern situation.Analyzing the new form of social contradiction under the capitalist democratic system,Fiske seeks the revolutionary subject for the reform of the western society.His visual cultural theory has important political practical significance.

Key words: ideology, coding, surveillance, John Fiske, visual, visual culture

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