“Representation. Cultural representations …”

“Representation”, by Stuart Hall, Jessica Evans and Sean Nixon, provides an in-depth look at how the culture around us works every day: by what means and based on what are meanings created in media, film, television, advertising and elsewhere, and how the visual images, language and the representational systems created by the interplay of discourses construct national, racial and gender identities and fantasies. The book’s chapters explore mechanisms of representation both in a more general sense and in specific contexts and institutional environments: the use of photographs to create national identity and culture; ways of creating representation in cinema and television documentaries; issues of representation of foreign cultures in museums; fantasies of racializing the “other” in mass media and film; representations of new masculinity in consumer culture and advertising; gendering narratives on television.
Cultural theorist and sociologist Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was born and raised in Jamaica, and in his later academic activities he paid particular attention to identity politics in the British sphere of influence and the role of culture in shaping it. Together with Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart, he established the first cultural studies program in British universities (1964 at the University of Birmingham), which emphasized the role of popular culture in making sense of political and social change. He was the first editor-in-chief of the New Left Review, founded in 1960.

Publisher: Estonian Academy of Arts Publishing House
Year of publication: 2018
Editor: Neeme Lopp
By Stuart Hall, Frances Bonner, Henrietta Lidchi, Sean Nixon, Christine Gledhill, Vicky Ball
Graphic design: Studio Studio
Language editor: Sirje Nilbe
Translator: Eva Näripea
Format: paperback
Language: Estonian
Pages: 383
Dimensions: 16 x 24 cm
ISBN: 9789949594689

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