[Commlist] New book: Writings on Media

*Writings on Media***

History of the Present

*Stuart Hall *

*Edited by Charlotte Brunsdon***

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478014713/writings-on-media/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478014713/writings-on-media/>

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“How refreshing and urgent to revisit Stuart Hall’s formative ideas 
about racism, identity, ideology, and media at the very moment that 
media has become such a contested site and source of ideological work. 
Hall’s searing and critical insights about what media does, how it 
works, and why it matters have never been as pressing as they are today. 
In our global and national media ecologies where disputes over facts, 
epistemological turmoil, fake news, and ideological rigidities are 
routine, Charlotte Brunsdon’s curated collection of Hall’s essays on the 
media is a remarkable and indispensable gift.”*—Herman Gray, Emeritus 
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz *

“Stuart Hall revolutionized the critical study of media, positioning 
them—newspapers, photographs, television—as key sites of struggle over 
cultural meaning and power, and thus as central to the project of 
cultural studies. Above all, however, Hall did not just write about 
media but used them prolifically as outlets for critical intervention in 
the world. This superb set of essays testifies to the uniquely powerful 
voice of one of the most important public intellectuals in postimperial 
Britain.”*—Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western 
Sydney University*

/Writings on Media/gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall’s media 
analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding in the 
Television Discourse” (1973) to other writings addressed to wider 
publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the 
development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of 
television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He 
attends to Britain’s imperial history and the politics of race and 
cultural identity as well as the media’s relationship to the political 
project of the state. Testifying to the range and agility of Hall’s 
critical and pedagogic engagement with contemporary media culture—and 
also to his collaborative mode of working—this volume reaffirms his 
stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the 
continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.

*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.



*Duke University Press | Stuart Hall: Selected Writings | October 2021 | 
360pp | 9781478014713 | PB | £21.99**

*Price subject to change.

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