Representation
Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
- Stuart Hall
- Sean Nixon - University of Essex, UK
- Jessica Evans - The Open University
Communication and Media Studies (General) | Cultural Studies (General) | Media & Society
Since 1997 Representation has been the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question and critically analyze media texts and images. This long-awaited third edition has been updated throughout to engage with the impact of digital technology and culture, and the changes in political culture, social movements and the cultural industries. The new edition includes:
- A new preface by Sean Nixon, focusing on digital media, and theories of representation.
- A new Afterword by Kobena Mercer to Stuart Hall’s classic chapter on ‘The Spectacle of the Other’
- Revised chapters with additional content on digital media, de-westernising culture, imperialism and BLM, and new readings tying contemporary issues of race, gender and power
- A new chapter by Nancy Thumim exploring digital forms of self-representation and representation in/of Politics, looking at media spectacle, political imagery, the Me Too movement and Black Lives Matter.
The Third Edition provides an indispensable resource for students and teachers in cultural and media studies.
The publication of the 3rd edition of Stuart Hall’s Representation comes at just the right time. Addressing recent social and political movements as well as theoretical developments in the humanities and social sciences, the editors and contributors of the new edition have done a superb job of recontextualizing Hall’s landmark work for the now.
This new edition reminds us of the relevance of this book for our students. Embracing discussions of recent political events, and of new expressions of known forms of othering; and addressing digital modes of social connectivity and of media production and circulation, the volume revitalizes much needed dialogues about the aesthetics and politics of representation.
Representation remains as timely as ever. A thorough and clear critique of media’s role in shaping society and culture, sharply updated to address the complexities that surround representation in the digital age.
