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Understanding Stuart Hall / Helen Davis.
LIBRA HM479.H35 D38 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hall, Stuart--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hall, Stuart.
- Culture--Philosophy.
- Culture.
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 222 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oak, Calif. : SAGE, 2004.
- Contents:
- 1 Encountering the mother country 5
- Negotiating class and colour 6
- The New Left 8
- A sense of classlessness 11
- The popular arts 18
- The critique of popular culture 21
- 2 A deadly serious matter 26
- Early days at the centre for contemporary cultural studies 26
- A sense of purpose 29
- Class and the political climate 31
- Class and the mass media 34
- The summer of love 37
- 3 The media in question 41
- Manufacturing consent 42
- A world at one with itself 43
- The determination of news photographs 44
- Gramsci and the concept of hegemony 46
- Althusser's theory of ideological and repressive state apparatuses 47
- Television and its relationship to British culture 49
- Television aesthetics 51
- The limits of broadcasting 54
- Deviancy, politics and the media 55
- The move towards the audience 59
- Encoding/Decoding 60
- Implications for media studies 66
- 4 Wrestling with the angels 69
- A decade of discontent 70
- A complex Marxism 73
- Althusser and the problem of interpreting history 74
- Settling accounts with Althusser 76
- The role of theory 77
- Culture, the media and the ideological effect 79
- Capitalism, class and the market 80
- The function of common sense 81
- The practice of dominant ideology 82
- The function of the state 84
- The functions of the mass media 87
- The case of football hooliganism 90
- The status and functions of sport within the press 92
- Mediating violence 92
- Investigating hooliganism 94
- Official responses to hooliganism 95
- 5 The politics of representation 98
- Young, black and British 99
- The 'problem' of race 100
- The failure of liberalism 102
- Policing the crisis 104
- Hegemony in crisis 105
- Moral panics and the threat from America 107
- Capitalism in crisis 110
- The signification spiral 112
- Policing the black community 113
- The enemy within 115
- Race, capitalism and employment 116
- A Marxist theory of crime? 118
- The function of the black working class 121
- Black resistance 123
- Reproducing inequality 125
- The impact of feminism 126
- Women take issue 127
- 6 Taking the risk of living dangerously 132
- Problems with the left 134
- The failure of labourism 135
- The swing to the right 137
- Gramsci and the 'historic bloc' thesis 138
- Thatcher's appeal to the working classes 140
- The limitations of 'authoritarian populism' 142
- The limitations of ideology theory 144
- Accusations and recriminations 146
- Against false consciousness 149
- The critique of ideology 151
- Problems with interpellation 152
- Hall's definition of ideology 153
- New Times 155
- Strategies of difference 156
- New labour, new problems 157
- 7 In the belly of the beast 160
- Hall and postmodern approaches to identity 161
- The cultural turn 163
- Implications for the analysis of race 166
- Reclaiming the personal 167
- Understanding racism 170
- 'Englishness' and the 'Tebbit test' 171
- Gramsci's relevance for Marxism 173
- Gramsci's relevance for Hall 175
- Understanding hegemony and resistance 177
- Hall and ethnicity 179
- New ethnicities 182
- The production of identity 184
- Imagining 'home' 185
- Policing black identity 186
- British identity in a multicultural society 188
- The Parekh Report 188
- 8 'Fragmented and concrete', in conversation with Stuart Hall 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761947140
- 0761947159
- OCLC:
- 54895115
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