Representation & the media / the Media Education Foundation presents ; produced & directed by Sut Jhally.

Stuart Hall, a renowned public speaker and teacher, lectures on the central ideas of cultural studies -- that reality is not experienced directly, but through the lens of culture, through the way that human beings represent and tell stories about the world in which they live. Using visual examples,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Media Education Foundation (Production company, Film distributor)
Other Authors: Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014 (Speaker)
Jhally, Sut (Film producer, Film director, Commentator, Film editor)
Talreja, Sanjay (Film editor)
Patierno, Mary (Film editor)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2002?]
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Representation and the media
Stuart Hall : representation and the media
Media Education Foundation presents Stuart Hall : representation and the media
Format: Video DVD
Contents:
  • Introduction [with Sut Jhally]
  • Visual representation and the contemporary world
  • An old view: representation as reflection/distortion of reality
  • A new view : representation as constitutive
  • Culture as primary
  • Conceptual maps : classifying the world
  • Language and communication
  • Reality and discourse
  • The practices of signification
  • Meaning and absence
  • Identity, identification and the viewer
  • Meaning is interpretation
  • Ideology and power fixes meaning
  • Contesting stereotypes : positive images
  • Contesting stereotypes : taking images apart
  • What is at stake in representation : new knowledges, new identities ; Previews ; About MEF.