Raymond Williams' Theoretical Construction To Visual Culture

Raymond Williams is an important theorist of the Birmingham School."Cultural Materialism" lays the foundation for cultural studies and is an important theoretical resource for visual culture research.Williams' theories make important contributions to visual culture in the philosophical foundation of visual research,to the field of process of visual culture,and to the field of social construction of visual culture.The ambiguous identity is the real dilemma of visual culture reseaarch.The theoretical connotation of Williams' "cultural materialism" defines the research object and research scope for visual culture research,and offers the "culture" research paradigm in visual culture research.It lays a theoretical foundation and provids theoretical support for the identity issue of visual culture research.The theory of "signifying practice","articulation" and "hegemony" have an important influence on the meaning production mechanism of symbols,and provide a theoretical basis for the theoretical kernel of visual culture research.In the process of visual culture communication,Williams discussed the discussion of "media",social habits and communication,and discussed the production,communication and acceptance of meaning from the perspective of specific cultural practice mechanism.The ideas of materiality,practice,and meaning sharing in the theory have an important impact on the issue of "intention" and democratic communication in the visual cultural communication activities.In the construction of visual culture and society,Williams's concept of "dramatic society","mobile privatization" and "feeling structure" reveals that cultural forms such as television and movies have influenced people's conceptions and attitudes towards real life and changed the way that they participates in the social culture.It has far-reaching influence on the participation of visual culture in social construction and human subjectivity construction.