Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media(1997)

🎬56 min
📅1997-01-01
🎭Documentary
8.0/10

Overview

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations, Hall argues that the process of representation itself constitutes the very world it aims to represent, and explores how the shared language of a culture, its signs and images, provides a conceptual roadmap that gives meaning to the world rather than simply reflecting it. Hall's concern throughout is the centrality of culture to the shaping of our collective perceptions, and how the dynamics of media representation reproduce forms of symbolic power.

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Media Education Foundation

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Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall
as Himself
Sut Jhally
Sut Jhally
as Himself
Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend
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