Stuart Hall Lives: Cultural Studies in an Age of Digital Media

by Peter Decherney (Editor), Katherine Sender (Editor)

Overview

The work of cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall, a pioneer of Cultural Studies who passed away in 2014, remains more relevant than ever. In Stuart Hall Lives, scholars engage with Hall's most enduring essays, including "Encoding/Decoding" and "Notes on Deconstructing the Popular," bringing them into the context of the 21^st century. Different chapters consider resistant media consumers, online journalism, debates around the American Confederate flag and rainbow flags, the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, and contemporary moral panics. The book also includes Hall's important essay on French theorist Louis Althusser, which is introduced here by Lawrence Grossberg and Jennifer Slack. Finally, two reminiscences by one of Hall's former colleagues and one of his former students offer wide-ranging reflections on his years as director of Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, and as head of the Department of Sociology at The Open University. Together, the contributions paint a picture of a brilliant theorist whose work and legacy is as vital as ever.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138067592
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Decherney is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His books include Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet (2012) and Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction (2015).

Katherine Sender is Professor of Media and Sexuality in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. She writes and produces documentaries in the areas of GLBTQ media studies, television studies, and consumer culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction – Stuart Hall lives: cultural studies in an age of digital media 1. An Introduction to Stuart Hall’s ‘Signification, Representation, Ideology’ 2. Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates 3. Stuart Hall at the Open University 4. Notes on reconstructing "the popular" 5. "It’s kind of like an assault, you know": media resisters’ meta-decoding practices of media culture 6. Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model and the circulation of journalism in the digital landscape 7. Reconciling Hall with discourse, written in the shadows of ‘"Confederate" and Rainbow Flags 8. #OscarsSoWhite: how Stuart Hall explains why nothing changes in Hollywood and everything is changing 9. New media, new panics 10. Regenerating Stuart Hall