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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 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 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.
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
