Representation
Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
- Stuart Hall
- Jessica Evans - The Open University
- Sean Nixon - University of Essex, UK
Communication and Media Studies (General) | Cultural Studies (General) | Media & Society
• updates and refreshes the approaches to representation, signalling key developments in the field
• addresses the emergence of new technologies, media formats, politics and theories
• includes an entirely new chapter on celebrity culture and reality TV
• offers new exercises, readings, images and examples for a new generation of students
This book once again provides an indispensible resource for students and teachers in cultural and media studies.
A highly valuable standard volume on issues of cultural representation including ethical aspects of dealing with cultural goods in a globalized world.
Stuart hall work is great for any module on Race and Ethnicity
This second updated edition of Stuart Hall's work is an essential reading for students in the Humanities as mine. They indeed attend a degree course in 'Media and Institutions'. The text explores the representational strategies through which meaning is constructed within the mutifaceted media industry and provides the theoretical instruments to deconstruct it, so as to foreground its underlying gender- and race-biased nature.
Race and representation are covered well and releavnt to current teaching.
Invaluable source for students of culture, media, and sociology of culture
The book provides some very good short digests of reading which work really well in class. But it can only exists as a supplement to a wider list of texts used.
This is an excellent text that will provide students a grounding in theory related to identity, media and representation. Particularly valuable for students is how the authors discuss and give concrete examples to critically analyse institutional and media texts and images in their everyday (for example, museums, fiction, film, soap operas, celebrity culture and reality TV) .
An excellent book but is not as directly relevant to journalism as I had hoped.
This text is a classic. It is sadly the last edition that will come from the pen of Stuart Hall, whose untimely death was announced last week.
The text is absolutely critical in introducing students to seminal concepts around the many faceted concept of representation. This is very strong on pertinent examples and provides a detailed and multi-layered foundation for students. The use of incorporated readings is excellent and the choices are perfect.
Quite apart from undergraduate students this books has a much broader appeal and I would require this as sine qua non reading for PhD students in the fields of mass communications, sociology or cultural studies.
Likely to be of interest to our final year students especially, though is used as a key text from year one onwards.
