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Understanding Stuart Hall / Helen Davis.

LIBRA HM479.H35 D38 2003
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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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