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Writings on Media collects Stuart Hall's most important work on the media, reaffirming his stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.
List of contents
Editor's Note on the Text vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A History of the Present / Charlotte Brunsdon 1
Part I. The Photograph in Context
Introduction to Part I 15
1. Preface to
Black Britain: A Photographic History 23
2. Media and Message: The Life and Death of
Picture Post 26
3. The Social Eye of
Picture Post 34
4. The Determinations of New Photographs 54
5. Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-war Black Settlement 78
6. Vanley Burke and the "Desire for Blackness" 95
Part II. Media Studies and Cultural Studies
Introduction to Part II 101
7. Film Teaching: Liberal Studies 111
8. The World of the Gossip Column 122
9. A World at One with Itself 131
10. Introduction to
Paper Voices 141
11. Down with the Little Woman 155
12. Mugging: A Case Study in the Media 162
13. Introduction to Media Studies at the Centre 169
14. The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media 177
Part III. Television
Introduction to Part III 201
15. Television as a Medium and Its Relation to Culture 209
16. Watching the Box 237
17. Gogglebox Gigolos 242
18. TV Types 245
19. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse 247
20. Media Power: The Double Bind 267
21. Will Annan Open the Box? 276
22. Which Public, Whose Service? 281
23. Black and White in Television 297
Coda 315
24. Stuart Hall's
Desert Island Discs 317
Index 331
Place of First Publication 343
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.
Summary
Writings on Media collects Stuart Hall's most important work on the media, reaffirming his stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.
