Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 1, 1997
• Runtime
• 56 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Sut Jhally

Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media — Cast

Stuart Hall Himself Sut Jhally Himself Robert Townsend Archive Footage (Hollywood Shuffle)