Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

by Stuart Hall (Editor), Sean Nixon (Editor), Jessica Evans (Editor)

Overview

Since 1997 Representation has been the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question and critically analyze institutional and media texts and images. This long-awaited third edition has been updated throughout to engage with the impact of digital technology and culture, and the changes in political culture, social movements and the cultural industries. The new edition includes:

• A new introduction by Jessica Evans and Sean Nixon, focusing on digital media, politics, race and gender
• Revised chapters with additional content on digital media, de-westernising culture, imperialism and BLM, and new readings tying contemporary issues of race, gender and power
• Two new chapters exploring digital forms of self-representation and representation in/of Politics, looking at media spectacle, political imagery, Brexit, Trump and climate activism

The Third Edition provides an indispensable resource for students and teachers in cultural and media studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529770384
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/26/2024
Series:	Culture, Media and Identities series
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stuart Hall was born and raised in Jamaica and arrived in Britain on a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford in 1950. In 1958, he left his Ph D on Henry James to found the New Left Review, which did much to open a debate about immigration and the politics of identity. Along with Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart he established the first Cultural Studies programme at a British university in Birmingham in 1964, bringing the study of popular culture into the understanding of political and social change.

After spending more than four decades as one of the UK’s leading public intellectuals, Hall retired from formal academic life in 1997 and since then has continued to devote himself to questions of representation, creativity and difference. He became the chair of two foundations, Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts, and Autograph ABP, which seeks to promote photographers from culturally diverse backgrounds, and championed the opening of Iniva’s new Rivington Place arts complex in east London in 2007.

Professor Sean Nixon is Head of the Department of Sociology and Director of MA Advertising and Marketing and the Media. at the University of Essex.

Jessica Evans is Senior Lecturer in Cultural & Media Studies at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION - Stuart Hall
Chapter 2 THE WORK OF REPRESENTATION - Stuart Hall
Chapter 3 QUESTIONING THE POETICS AND THE POLITICS OF EXHIBITING OTHER CULTURES - Henrietta Lidchi
Chapter 4 THE SPECTACLE OF THE ‘OTHER’ - Stuart Hall
Chapter 5 EXHIBITING MASCULINITY - Sean Nixon
Chapter 6 POLITICS IN AND POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION - Nancy

Editorial Reviews

This is simply a magnificent collection of chapters, laced together under the guiding light of Stuart Hall's outstanding scholarship. The chapters each exemplify the very best modes of cultural studies writing, theoretically informed, lucid, vividly alive and relevant to students and to general readers across the arts, humanities and social sciences. New material by Stuart Hall is particularly welcome, and will be much appreciated given his key role in the development of post-colonial as well as cultural studies. In particular we see Hall lay out the conceptual groundwork for an extensive study of the media from the viewpoint of 'race' and ethnicity.
Angela Mc Robbie
Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

The second edition of Representation should enable it to speak to new generations of students and to continue to serve as the authoritative introduction to the theories and politics of meaning and representation in cultural studies. Anyone interested in these matters, whether student, teacher or simply curious intellect, will be glad for the time spent reading this book.
Lawrence Grossberg
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Senior Editor of the journal Cultural Studies

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