Professional paper

Untouched Literal Meaning in Advertising

Jelena Rvović ; Faculty of Drama Arts, University of Arts in belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

When we talk about advertising, media are the frame of reference for understanding and theorization of this phenomenon, but taking into account only that we will once again explain the impact of their content to the audience, which is, after all, not questioned. A different approach to the study of these topics is wider frame of reference - a society, and the basic research question is actually how the study of misogyny in commercials directing attention to the social context in which the recipient makes decisions regarding the release of information? If we recognize misogynistic content in advertisements and interpret it only in the discourse of feminist theory, the question is whether the information obtained in such way will produce the terror of surplus of meaning and why are we doing it at all? Would such an approach and the analysis itself reduced to complete insignificance, not realizing at the end of its significance? On the other hand, if we observe the same analysis through the eyes of human relationships, we must use other discourses.

Keywords

advertisements; misogynistic content; ethics; feminism; media; art; culture

Hrčak ID:

127193

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/127193

Publication date:

15.9.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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