Theoretical Legacies- Stuart Hall the following write up on Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies is by Rinu Dina John ------------------ Stuart Hall is one of the most influential figures in cultural studies. He was part of the time when cultural studies was originated as an academic discourse or discipline. In this essay he questions the seriousness with which this discourse is engaged with a personal version of the history of the cultural studies. According to Hall cultural studies emerged
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Hall‚ Theory Hall has become one of the main proponents of reception theory‚ and developed Hall’s Theory of encoding and decoding. This approach to textual analysis focuses on the scope for negotiation and opposition on part of the audience. This means that the audience does not simply passively accept a text — whether a book or a film — and that an element of activity becomes involved. The person negotiates the meaning of the text. The meaning depends on the cultural background of the person
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Stanley Cohen (1973) suggests that the media depiction of anti-social behaviour helps to construct folk devils. Folk devils become the focus of public fears and anxieties. They are made to stand for wider problems and concerns and‚ in the process‚ become the figures who exemplify ‘what is wrong with society today’. Today’s folk devils might be the ‘yobs’‚ ‘hoodies’‚ ‘yobettes’ or ‘alco-yobs’ referred to in newspaper headlines. In Cohen’s original study they were the ‘mods’ and ‘rockers’‚ members
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Stuart Hall - The Floating Signifier Part 1 Starting with Spike Lee’s movie in wich individuals trowing racial slours and insoults on every race - Afro-Americans‚ Aisans‚ Latinos‚ Jews.. Sut Jhally (University of Massachusetts) is talking about visual race diferences (color‚ hair and bone). If we want fight against racism‚ first we have to understand it and see how it works in our minds‚ so we could better combat it on the streets. What racism as philosophy contains is that is a natural connection
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Representation connects meaning and language to culture. Theories about how LANGUAGE is used to represent the world: * the reflective‚ Does language simply reflect a meaning which already exists out there in the world of objects‚ people and events? * the intentional Does language express only what the speaker or writer or painter wants to say‚ his or her personally intended meaning? * the constructionist Or is meaning constructed in and through language? this perspective has had
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Cultural Identity and Diaspora STUART HALL A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging‚ joining the company of the other ’Third Cinemas’. It is related to‚ but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) ’blacks’ of the diasporas of the West the new post-colonial subjects. All these cultural practices and forms of representation have the black subject at their centre‚ putting the issue of cultural identity in question. Who is this emergent
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KEY CONCEPTS CULTURE IS COMMUNICATION In physics today‚ so far as we know‚ the galaxies that one studies are all controlled by the same laws. This is not entirely true of the worlds created by humans. Each cultural world operates according to its own internal dynamic‚ its own prin ciples‚ and its own laws-written and unwritten. Even time and space are unique to each culture. There are‚ however‚ some common threads that run through ;:111 cultures. It is possible to say that the world
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Representations A mere reflection of what we want to see. Mere reflections of our memories. Or of us. I think representations in this poem‚ in terms of my perspective are a mere reflection of ourselves or what we want to think. The imagery is shown by our “representations”. In the poem the speaker defines representations as “things residing inside the brain.” (Sanes). I guess this kind of relates to my definition because representations are what we see‚ from our perspective. What we think
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"Survival" Stuart Diver By Simon Bouda Stuart Diver born 14th January 1970‚ Geelong‚ Victoria. Simon Bouda author of "Survival"‚ a Sydney based journalist and author of 27 years experience was part of the nine network team assigned to cover the inspirational story of Stuart Diver‚ the sole survivor of the 97 Thredbo landslide. Stuart grew up exploring the world‚ when he was nine he went to Nepal with his family; mum‚ dad and his brother Euan‚ where they climbed to the Mt. Everest base
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ASSIGNMENT 6 – STUART CELLARS 1. The factors used by Stuart Cellars are mostly costs. They are basing most of their pricing on the overall cost to produce a bottle of wine‚ while trying to stay competitively priced in a highly critical market. They are also using their quality of grapes and processing to demand a higher price per bottle. In addition‚ they are trying to create their own demand by increasing the amount of “members” in their club. By offering a club‚ they are ensuring a certain
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