Movie: Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

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Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall

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Sut Jhally
Sut Jhally

Himself

Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend

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    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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    1997-01-01

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