1st Edition

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

Edited By Peter Decherney, Katherine Sender Copyright 2018
146 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction – Stuart Hall lives: cultural studies in an age of digital media Katherine Sender and Peter Decherney

1. An Introduction to Stuart Hall’s ‘Signification, Representation, Ideology’ Lawrence Grossberg and Jennifer Slack

2. Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates Stuart Hall

3. Stuart Hall at the Open University Ken Thompson

4. Notes on reconstructing "the popular" Gilbert B. Rodman

5. "It’s kind of like an assault, you know": media resisters’ meta-decoding practices of media culture Louise Woodstock

6. Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model and the circulation of journalism in the digital landscape Henrik Bødker

7. Reconciling Hall with discourse, written in the shadows of ‘"Confederate" and Rainbow Flags D. Travers Scott

8. #OscarsSoWhite: how Stuart Hall explains why nothing changes in Hollywood and everything is changing Isabel Molina-Guzmán

9. New media, new panics Chris Ingraham and Joshua Reeves

10. Regenerating Stuart Hall Paddy Scannell

Biography

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.