Richard Dyer 1993 argues that representation is a political tool:
Social groups are treated in cultural representation is part and parcel of how they are treated in life, that poverty, harassment, self-hate and discrimination (in housing, jobs eduacational opportunity and so on) are shored up and instituted by representation.
He also highlights the complications in theories which focus on negative, representations of calss, race and sexuality.
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