Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History

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$29.84
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Duke University Press
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232
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5.9 X 9.0 X 0.6 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
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Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780822362630

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About the Author
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. Jennifer Daryl Slack is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at Michigan Technological University. Lawrence Grossberg is Morris David Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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"Hall's lectures from 1983 appear to be a peculiar event of appropriation--a fundamental attempt to retain Marx as a nondisposable basis for cultural studies by means of a meticulous, well-informed, and earnest guarding of his heritage from vulgar and reductive misreadings. The volume itself is a praiseworthy enterprise of retaining this hallmark of theoretical history and making accessible at least some of Hall's works, otherwise scattered across less-known collections and anthologies.".
--Sergiy Yakovenko "H-Russia, H-Net Reviews" (1/18/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Hall's metier was to tease out the competing histories, the contradictory political, economic, and social forces condensed within a particular historical moment, an excavation of ideology he called 'conjunctural analysis.' . . . [H]is work is all too timely, for the haphazard project of neoliberalism, justified retroactively by nonsensical appeals to the 'free market, ' is as advanced as the decades-long economic decline it magics away with bubbles and rhetoric (GDP balloons; personal wealth stagnates)."--Michael Robbins "Bookforum" (4/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Hall's work has become especially resonant as Britain has voted for a narrower identity and a more isolationist attitude to the rest of the world.... There is a generosity and literary imagination in his writing--a recognition that humans are complex, contradictory creatures shaped by, among other things, what they believe, where they live, how they shop, and who they sleep with."--Jessica Loudis "The New Republic" (9/27/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Cultural Studies 1983 performs two important tasks: it recreates a sense of the spark that kindled a moment long remembered in Cultural Studies and related fields; more importantly, it offers access into an incredibly rich body of thought that has as much to teach today as it did three and a half decades ago.... Thanks to Cultural Studies 1983 and Duke University Press's Stuart Hall: Selected Writings series, we have a new trove of proven tools when perhaps we need them most."--John Munro "History" (10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Given at the University of Illinois in 1983, the lectures provide a fascinating introduction to the theoretical questions with which cultural studies was grappling. . . . A compelling and essential introduction to both the strengths of cultural studies as a discipline and its evolution during that time."--Rjurik Davidson "Thesis Eleven" (10/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"The collection is inspiring and comprehensive, covering, for example, the birth of Cultural Studies, Marxist structuralism and Hall's crucial post-Gramscian work on hegemony. . . . Hall's collection of lectures is persuasive, galvanising and feels both timeless and timely, despite its posthumous status."
--Sofia Ropek Hewson "LSE Review of Books" (3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Cultural Studies 1983 is a cogent summation of the most influential modern theories that have grappled with and tried to explain the dynamics of unequal societies and the cultures they produced." --Shonaleeka Kaul "Frontline" (8/18/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"The late Stuart Hall was more than an intellectual giant of postwar Britain. He was the great illuminator, whose far-reaching insights into how the world is constructed show us why cultural studies is not about the manners learned from the masters, but a way of examining and understanding social reality as made by the people themselves. Argumentative, diagnostic, witty, and learned, the series of scintillating lectures contained in this volume presents Hall at the height of his fearless and generous scholarly powers, offering not only a history of cultural studies but a theoretical and politically engaged reading of our unequal centuries."--Okwui Enwezor "Artforum" (12/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"One of the most important cultural studies books to be published in recent (or even distant) memory. . . . The long wait has been worth it, and 1983 arrives at a moment when we desperately need it. . . . Hall didn't intend these lectures to be a call to arms for 2017 and beyond. But we can--and should--still read them that way."--Gilbert B. Rodman "Cultural Studies" (11/21/2017 12:00:00 AM)
""I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin its political and theoretical education with systematic access to Hall's writing. . . . Cultural Studies 1983 lays out his approach in accessible lecture form."--Asad Haider "The Point" (8/15/2021 12:00:00 AM)