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Writings on Media: History of the Present

Stuart Hall

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Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as "Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse" (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He attends to Britain's imperial history and the politics of race and cultural identity as well as the media's relationship to the political project of the state. Testifying to the range and agility of Hall's critical and pedagogic engagement with contemporary media culture--and also to his collaborative mode of working--this volume reaffirms his stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 16th, 2021
  • Pages: 352
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.22in - 0.94in - 1.35lb
  • EAN: 9781478013778
  • Categories: • Media Studies• Television - History & Criticism• Black Studies (Global)

About the Author

Stuart Hall (1932-2014) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. Hall taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding editor of New Left Review, and was the author of Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

Charlotte Brunsdon is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. Her most recent book is Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore, also published by Duke University Press.

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Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality / political ecologies

@phoebeemyers Hey, yes, I managed to photograph the article in the end when the British Library reopened last year. DM your email address and I'll send. It's also just been republished in Stuart Hall, Writings on Media (Duke University Press, 2021)

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Stuart Hall on the “present conjuncture, the history of the present” as his object of study: “what is the condition in which we now find ourselves in & how did we get there & what forces are creating it in order that we might understand how we might do something about it?” https://t.co/Jz4S2t5uph

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"How refreshing and urgent to revisit Stuart Hall's formative ideas about racism, identity, ideology, and media at the very moment that media has become such a contested site and source of ideological work. Hall's searing and critical insights about what media does, how it works, and why it matters have never been as pressing as they are today. In our global and national media ecologies where disputes over facts, epistemological turmoil, fake news, and ideological rigidities are routine, Charlotte Brunsdon's curated collection of Hall's essays on the media is a remarkable and indispensable gift."--Herman Gray, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Stuart Hall revolutionized the critical study of media, positioning them--newspapers, photographs, television--as key sites of struggle over cultural meaning and power, and thus as central to the project of cultural studies. Above all, however, Hall did not just write about media but used them prolifically as outlets for critical intervention in the world. This superb set of essays testifies to the uniquely powerful voice of one of the most important public intellectuals in postimperial Britain."--Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University
"Brunsdon . . . gifts us with the evolution and contours of Hall's thought(s) about media more broadly in work he produced mostly in the decade of the 1970s or thereabouts: about photography and the visual arts, about the press, about radio and broadcasting, and finally about television. . . What the American reader learns from this collection is this: Hall was a prescient, energetic thinker of specificity and generality at the same time. . . ."--Amy Villarejo "Critical Studies in Television" (8/23/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"This is the true magic here: what Hall furnished for us during the course of his life, and what Brunsdon has collected and contextualized in Writings on Media, is an invitation into Hall's world--to see the world as he did. This vision is bright eyed, and delighted, and serious, and humble. . . . In all of his prose, it is unmistakable just how much Hall absolutely wants you in it with him, and to share his questions, and to identify possible answers, and to figure it out with you. And, that is a very precious gift indeed."--Max Wiggins "College & Research Libraries" (9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"This series is a veritable motherlode for Hall devotees and neophytes alike. . . . As Brunsdon points out, ensures that even the older or more micro-focused pieces in this volume still have ample value for current scholarship in media, film and cultural studies, and for the broader intersections around the analysis of politics, race, identity and ideological formation."--Bill Yousman "Screen" (9/22/2022 12:00:00 AM)

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: Ben Mechen
Ben Mechen
@benmechen
3 years

Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality / political ecologies

@phoebeemyers Hey, yes, I managed to photograph the article in the end when the British Library reopened last year. DM your email address and I'll send. It's also just been republished in Stuart Hall, Writings on Media (Duke University Press, 2021)

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Lisa Diedrich
@lldiedrich
2 years

Tweets slowly on queer feminism, critical medical studies, disability studies, graphic medicine, pedagogy, gender & sports. Author: Indirect Action & Treatments

Stuart Hall on the “present conjuncture, the history of the present” as his object of study: “what is the condition in which we now find ourselves in & how did we get there & what forces are creating it in order that we might understand how we might do something about it?” https://t.co/Jz4S2t5uph

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