{"title":"Stuart Hall","description":"Stuart Hall (1932-2014) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. He was a prolific writer and speaker and a public voice for critical intelligence and social justice who appeared widely on British television and radio. He taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding editor of New Left Review, and served as the director of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies during its most creative and influential decade. He is the author of Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays and Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, both also published by Duke University Press.","products":[{"product_id":"familiar-stranger-a-life-between-two-islands-paperback","title":"Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial.\" This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall-how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white elite. As colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Kingston and across the world. In 1951 a Rhodes scholarship took Hall across the Atlantic to Oxford University, where he met young Jamaicans from all walks of life, as well as writers and thinkers from across the Caribbean, including V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming. While at Oxford he met Raymond Williams, Charles Taylor, and other leading intellectuals, with whom he helped found the intellectual and political movement known as the New Left. With the emotional aftershock of colonialism still pulsing through him, Hall faced a new struggle: that of building a home, a life, and an identity in a postwar England so rife with racism that it could barely recognize his humanity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith great insight, compassion, and wit, Hall tells the story of his early life, taking readers on a journey through the sights, smells, and streets of 1930s Kingston while reflecting on the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain. Full of passion and wisdom, \u003ci\u003eFamiliar Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e is the intellectual memoir of one of our greatest minds.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433759637727,"sku":"9780822371403","price":29.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/34NZvCLswC9780822371403.webp?v=1790017266"},{"product_id":"doing-cultural-studies-the-story-of-the-sony-walkman-paperback","title":"Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eArguably the most famous book in its field... In theoretical terms, the legacy of \u003cem\u003eDoing Cultural Studies\u003c\/em\u003e confirms that this classic read is not just about the Walkman itself, but represents a series of clear observations about the symbolic meanings of culture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- LSE Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Why think about the Walkman in the 21st century? Can the Walkman help us understand today's media and cultural practices? Through the notion of the ′circuit of culture′, this book teaches students to critically examine what culture means, and how and why it is enmeshed with the media texts and objects in their lives. Students will: \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnpack the key concepts of contemporary culture, such as mobility, materiality, consumption and identity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLearn to think about some of the cultural conundrums of the present and their relation to the past, such as branding culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLook with fresh eyes at today′s media world and the cultural practices it gives rise to\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGain practical experience with the historical comparative method\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePractice their critical skills with up-to-date exercises and activities \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e This book takes students on a journey between past and present, giving them the skills do to cultural analysis along the way. It remains the perfect ′how to′ for students in media studies, cultural studies, design and sociology.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924462371039,"sku":"9781849205504","price":169.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3d8RH5Nddp9781849205504.webp?v=1791193857"},{"product_id":"without-guarantees-in-honour-of-stuart-hall-paperback","title":"Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eStuart Hall's retirement from the Open University in 1997 provided a unique opportunity to reflect on an academic career which has had the most profound impact on scholarship and teaching in many parts of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his early work on the media, through his influential re-working of Gramsci for the analysis of Britain in the late 1970s, through his considered debates on Thatcherism and more recently on \"race\" and new ethnicities, Hall has been an inspirational figure for generations of academics. He has helped to make universities places where ideas and social commitment can exist alongside each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection invites a wide range of academics who have been influenced by Stuart Hall's writing to contribute not a memoir or a eulogy but an engaged piece of social, cultural or historical analysis which continues and develops the field of thinking opened up by Hall. The topics covered include identity and hybridity, history and post-colonialism, pedagogy and cultural politics, space and place, globalization and economy, modernity and difference.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67947336138975,"sku":"9781859842874","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/evD9FDDPKS9781859842874.webp?v=1791535962"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/stuart-hall.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}