ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. Hall taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding editor of New Left Review, and was the author of Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

Charlotte Brunsdon is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. Her most recent book is Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore, also published by Duke University Press.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor's Note on the Text  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: A History of the Present / Charlotte Brunsdon  1
Part I. The Photograph in Context
Introduction to Part I  15
1. Preface to Black Britain: A Photographic History  23
2. Media and Message: The Life and Death of Picture Post  26
3. The Social Eye of Picture Post  34
4. The Determinations of New Photographs  54
5. Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-war Black Settlement  78
6. Vanley Burke and the "Desire for Blackness"  95
Part II. Media Studies and Cultural Studies
Introduction to Part II  101
7. Film Teaching: Liberal Studies  111
8. The World of the Gossip Column  122
9.  A World at One with Itself  131
10. Introduction to Paper Voices  141
11. Down with the Little Woman  155
12. Mugging: A Case Study in the Media  162
13. Introduction to Media Studies at the Centre  169
14. The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media  177
Part III. Television
Introduction to Part III  201
15. Television as a Medium and Its Relation to Culture  209
16. Watching the Box  237
17. Gogglebox Gigolos  242
18. TV Types  245
19. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse  247
20. Media Power: The Double Bind 267
21. Will Annan Open the Box?  276
22. Which Public, Whose Service?  281
23. Black and White in Television  297
Coda  315
24. Stuart Hall's Desert Island Discs  317
Index  331
Place of First Publication  343

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