Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He attends to Britain's imperial history and the politics of race and cultural identity as well as the media's relationship to the political project of the state. Testifying to the range and agility of Hall's critical and pedagogic engagement with contemporary media culture—and also to his collaborative mode of working—this volume reaffirms his stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A History of the Present / Charlotte Brunsdon
- Part I | The Photograph in Context / Introduction
- One. Preface to Black Britain: A Photographic History
- Two. Media and Message: The Life and Death of Picture Post
- Three. The Social Eye of Picture Post
- Four. The Determinations of News Photographs
- Five. Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-war Black Settlement
- Six. Vanley Burke and the “Desire for Blackness”
- Part II | Media Studies and Cult ural Studies / Introduction
- Seven. Film Teaching: Liberal Studies
- Eight. The World of the Gossip Column
- Nine. A World at One with Itself
- Ten. Introduction to Paper Voices
- Eleven. Down with the Little Woman
- Twelve. Mugging: A Case Study in the Media
- Thirteen. Introduction to Media Studies at the Centre
- Fourteen. The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media
- Part III | Television / Introduction
- Fifteen. Television as a Medium and Its Relation to Culture
- Sixteen. Watching the Box
- Seventeen. Gogglebox Gigolos
- Eighteen. TV Types
- Nineteen. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse
- Twenty. Media Power: The Double Bind
- Twenty-One. Will Annan Open the Box?
- Twenty-Two. Which Public, Whose Service?
- Twenty-Three. Black and White in Television
- Coda
- Twenty-Four. Stuart Hall’s Desert Island Discs
- Index
- Place of First Publication
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