Stuart Hall Lives: Cultural Studies in an Age of Digital Media
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 Halls most enduring essays, including Encoding/Decoding and Notes on Deconstructing the Popular, bringing them into the context of the 21st 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 Halls important essay on French theorist Louis Althusser, which is introduced here by Lawrence Grossberg and Jennifer Slack. Finally, two reminiscences by one of Halls former colleagues and one of his former students offer wide-ranging reflections on his years as director of the 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.
Peter Decherney is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His books include Hollywoods 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.
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Stuart Hall Lives: Cultural Studies in an Age of Digital Media
Edited by Peter Decherney and Katherine Sender
Stuart Hall Lives: Cultural Studies in an Age of Digital Media
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in Critical Studies in Mass Communication. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
An Introduction to Stuart Halls Essay
Lawrence Grossberg and Jennifer Daryl Slack
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, volume 2, issue 2 (June 1985) pp. 8790
Chapter 2
Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates
Stuart Hall
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, volume 2, issue 2 (June 1985) pp. 91114
Chapter 3
Stuart Hall at the Open University
Ken Thompson
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, volume 33, issue 5 (December 2016) pp. 385387
Chapter 4
Notes on reconstructing the popular
Gilbert B. Rodman
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, volume 33, issue 5 (December 2016) pp. 388398
Chapter 5
Its kind of like an assault, you know: media resisters meta-decoding practices of media culture
Louise Woodstock
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, volume 33, issue 5 (December 2016) pp. 399408
Chapter 6
Stuart Halls encoding/decoding model and the circulation of journalism in the digital landscape
Henrik Bdker
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, volume 33, issue 5 (December 2016) pp. 409423
