Writings on Media: History of the Present (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings) - Hardcover

Hall, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147801377X ISBN 13: 9781478013778

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147801377X
• ISBN 13: 9781478013778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Brunsdon Charlotte