Richard Dyer

Richard Dyer

According to Richard Dyer (1985) representation can be looked at in the following ways:

•As re-presentation: presenting reality over again to us. Reality is mediated through forms of representation available in the culture.

 

•As ‘being representative of’ in the sense of being ‘typical’. This, of course, raises the question of what is ‘typical’.

 

•In the sense of speaking for and on behalf of somebody or a group.

 

•In recognising the existence of audience responses, with different kinds of representation.

Apply this to Utopia