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Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

8.0 56 mins Documentary   1997
Media Education Foundation  
Director(s): Sut Jhally

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.

Casts of Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

Stuart Hall

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Sut Jhally

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Robert Townsend

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