{"product_id":"writings-on-media-9781478013778","title":"Writings on Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWritings on Media\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\"Brunsdon . . . gifts us with the evolution and contours of Hall’s thought(s) about media more broadly in work he produced mostly in the decade of the 1970s or thereabouts: about photography and the visual arts, about the press, about radio and broadcasting, and finally about television. . . What the American reader learns from this collection is this: Hall was a prescient, energetic thinker of specificity and generality at the same time. . . .\" -- Amy Villarejo * Critical Studies in Television *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the true magic here: what Hall furnished for us during the course of his life, and what Brunsdon has collected and contextualized in \u003ci\u003eWritings on Media\u003c\/i\u003e, is an invitation into Hall’s world—to see the world as he did. This vision is bright eyed, and delighted, and serious, and humble. . . . In all of his prose, it is unmistakable just how much Hall absolutely wants you in it with him, and to share his questions, and to identify possible answers, and to figure it out with you. And, that is a very precious gift indeed.\" -- Max Wiggins * College \u0026amp; Research Libraries *\u003cbr\u003e\"This series is a veritable motherlode for Hall devotees and neophytes alike. . . . As Brunsdon points out, ensures that even the older or more micro-focused pieces in this volume still have ample value for current scholarship in media, film and cultural studies, and for the broader intersections around the analysis of politics, race, identity and ideological formation.\" -- Bill Yousman * Screen *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Note on the Text  vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A History of the Present \/ Charlotte Brunsdon  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Photograph in Context\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part I  15\u003cbr\u003e 1. Preface to \u003ci\u003eBlack Britain: A Photographic History\u003c\/i\u003e  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Media and Message: The Life and Death of \u003ci\u003ePicture Post\u003c\/i\u003e  26\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Social Eye of \u003ci\u003ePicture Post\u003c\/i\u003e  34\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Determinations of New Photographs  54\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-war Black Settlement  78\u003cbr\u003e 6. Vanley Burke and the \"Desire for Blackness\"  95\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Media Studies and Cultural Studies\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part II  101\u003cbr\u003e 7. Film Teaching: Liberal Studies  111\u003cbr\u003e 8. The World of the Gossip Column  122\u003cbr\u003e 9.  A World at One with Itself  131\u003cbr\u003e 10. Introduction to \u003ci\u003ePaper Voices\u003c\/i\u003e  141\u003cbr\u003e 11. Down with the Little Woman  155\u003cbr\u003e 12. Mugging: A Case Study in the Media  162\u003cbr\u003e 13. Introduction to Media Studies at the Centre  169\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media  177\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Television\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Part III  201\u003cbr\u003e 15. Television as a Medium and Its Relation to Culture  209\u003cbr\u003e 16. Watching the Box  237\u003cbr\u003e 17. Gogglebox Gigolos  242\u003cbr\u003e 18. TV Types  245\u003cbr\u003e 19. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse  247\u003cbr\u003e 20. Media Power: The Double Bind 267\u003cbr\u003e 21. Will Annan Open the Box?  276\u003cbr\u003e 22. Which Public, Whose Service?  281\u003cbr\u003e 23. Black and White in Television  297\u003cbr\u003e Coda  315\u003cbr\u003e 24. Stuart Hall's \u003ci\u003eDesert Island Discs\u003c\/i\u003e  317\u003cbr\u003e Index  331\u003cbr\u003e Place of First Publication  343","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408994181463,"sku":"9781478013778","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013778.jpg?v=1730505008","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writings-on-media-9781478013778","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}