Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (Comedia)

541 Pages·1996·3.49 MB·English

by  Dave Morley

Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall’s work has been central to the formation and development of
cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical
Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and
about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall’s
enormously influential writings on cultural studies and its concerns: the
relationship with marxism; postmodernism and ‘New Times’ in cultural
and political thought; the development of cultural studies as an
international and postcolonial phenomenon and Hall’s engagement with
urgent and abiding questions of ‘race’, ethnicity and identity.
In addition to presenting classic writings by Hall and new interviews
with Hall in dialogue with Kuan-Hsing Chen, the collection provides a
detailed analysis of Hall’s work and his contribution to the development of
cultural studies by leading cultural critics and cultural practitioners. The
book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Stuart Hall’s writings.
Contributors: Ien Ang, Charlotte Brunsdon, Iain Chambers, Kuan-Hsing
Chen, John Fiske, Lawrence Grossberg, Stuart Hall, Hanno Hardt, Dick
Hebdige, Isaac Julien, Jorge Larrain, Angela McRobbie, Kobena Mercer,
David Morley, Mark Nash, Jennifer Daryl Slack, Colin Sparks, Jon
Stratton.
David Morley is Reader in Communications, Goldsmiths’ College,
London.
Kuan-Hsing Chen teaches at the Center for Cultural Studies, National
Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Comedia
Series editor: David Morley
Stuart Hall
Critical Dialogues in Cultural
Studies
Edited by David Morley and
Kuan-Hsing Chen
London and New York
First published 1996
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Contents
Notes on contributors v iii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen
Part I (Un)Settling accounts: marxism and cultural studies
1 The problem of ideology: marxism without guarantees 24
Stuart Hall
2 Stuart Hall and the marxist concept of ideology 46
Jorge Larrain
3 Stuart Hall, cultural studies and marxism 71
Colin Sparks
4 British cultural studies and the return of the ‘critical’ in 1 03
American mass communications research: accommodation
or radical change?
Hanno Hardt
5 The theory and method of articulation in cultural studies 1 13
Jennifer Daryl Slack
Part II Postmodernism and cultural studies: first encounters
6 On postmodernism and articulation: an interview with 1 31
Stuart Hall
Edited by Lawrence Grossberg
7 History, politics and postmodernism: Stuart Hall and 1 51
cultural studies
Lawrence Grossberg
8 Postmodernism and ‘the other side’ 1 74
Dick Hebdige
9 Waiting on the end of the world? 2 01
Iain Chambers
vi
10 Opening the Hallway: some remarks on the fertility of 2 12
Stuart Hall’s contribution to critical theory
John Fiske
Part III New Times, transformations and transgressions
11 The meaning of New Times 2 22
Stuart Hall
12 Looking back at New Times and its critics 2 37
Angela McRobbie
13 Cultural studies and its theoretical legacies 2 61
Stuart Hall
14 A thief in the night: stories of feminism in the 1970s at 2 75
CCCS
Charlotte Brunsdon
15 For Allon White: metaphors of transformation 2 86
Stuart Hall
Part IV Critical postmodernism, cultural imperialism and postcolonial
theory
16 Post-marxism: between/beyond critical postmodernism and 3 07
cultural studies
Kuan-Hsing Chen
17 EurAm, modernity, reason and alterity: or, postmodernism, 3 24
the highest stage of cultural imperialism?
David Morley
18 On the impossibility of a global cultural studies: ‘British’ 3 60
cultural studies in an ‘international’ frame
Jon Stratton and Ien Ang
19 Cultural studies and the politics of internationalization: an 3 93
interview with Stuart Hall by Kuan-Hsing Chen
Part V Diasporic questions: ‘race’, ethnicity and identity
20 Gramsci’s relevance for the study of race and ethnicity 4 11
Stuart Hall
21 New ethnicities 4 42
Stuart Hall
22 De Margin and De Centre 4 52
Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer
vii
23 What is this ‘black’ in black popular culture? 4 68
Stuart Hall
24 Dialogues with Stuart Hall 4 79
Isaac Julien and Mark Nash
25 The formation of a diasporic intellectual: an interview with 4 86
Stuart Hall by Kuan-Hsing Chen
A working bibliography: the writings of Stuart Hall 5 06
Index 5 19
Contributors
Ien Ang is Director of the Centre for Research in Culture and
Communication in the School of Humanities, Murdoch University. She is
the author of Watching Dallas (1985), Desperately Seeking the Audience
(1991) and Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a
Postmodern World (1995).
Charlotte Brunsdon teaches in the Department of Film and Television
Studies at the University of Warwick. She is an editor of the collection
Feminist Television Criticism (1996).
Iain Chambers is Professor of History and Culture of English Speaking
Countries at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples. He is author of
Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity (1990) and Migrancy,
Culture, Identity (1994), as well as co-editor, with Lidia Curti, of The Post-
Colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons (1995).
Kuan-Hsing Chen teaches at the Center for Cultural Studies, National
Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is the author of Media/
Cultural Criticism: A Popular-Democratic Line of Flight (Taipei, 1992)
and the co-editor of Cultural Studies: the Implosion of MacDonalds
(Taipei, 1992) and Trajectories: A New Internationalist Cultural Studies
(forthcoming).
John Fiske is Professor of Communication Arts at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent books are Power Plays, Power Works
(1993) and Media Matters (1994).
Lawrence Grossberg is Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies
at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the co-editor of
Cultural Studies, both the book and the journal. His most recent books are
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern
Culture (1992) and Dancing in Spite of Myself: Selected Essays
(forthcoming). He is currently working on a critique of the modernist
foundations of cultural studies.
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Hanno Hardt is John F.Murray Professor of Journalism and Mass
Communication at the University of Iowa and Professor of Communication
at the University of Ljubljana. His most recent book projects include
Critical Communication Studies: Communication, History and Theory in
America (Routledge, 1992) and Newsworkers: Towards a History of the
Rank and File, co-edited with Bonnie Brennen, and to be published by the
University of Minnesota Press.
Dick Hebdige is Dean of Critical Studies at the Californian Institute of the
Arts in Los Angeles. He is the author of Subculture: The Meaning of Style
(1979), Cut ‘n’ Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music (1987) and
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (1988).
Isaac Julien is a film director and theorist who is a visiting professor of
History of Consciences at Santa Cruz University, as well as a Rockefeller
Humanities Scholar at the NYU Center for Media Culture and History.
His films include Looking for Langston (1989), Young Soul Rebels (1991),
The Attendant (1993) and Finding Fanon (1995).
Jorge Larrain is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Cultural
Studies at the University of Birmingham. He was head of department from
1988 to 1993 and has published several books on the theory of ideology. His
most recent contribution is Ideology and Cultural Identity: Modernity and
the Third World Presence (1994).
Angela McRobbie is Reader in Sociology at Loughborough University of
Technology and is the author of Postmodernism and Popular Culture
(Routledge, 1994) and of Fashion and the Image Industries (Routledge,
forthcoming).
Kobena Mercer is an independent writer and critic based in London.
Formerly Assistant Professor in the Art History and History of
Consciousness programmes at University of California, Santa Cruz, he has
lectured and published widely on the cultural politics of race and sexuality
in visual culture and is the author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions
in Black Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1994).
David Morley is Reader in Communications at Goldsmiths’ College,
London University and is the author of Television, Audiences and Cultural
Studies (Routledge, 1992) and (with Kevin Robins) Spaces of Identity:
Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (Routledge,
1995).
Mark Nash was one-time editor of Screen and is currently collaborating
with Isaac Julien on a film on Frantz Fanon. He is also working on a book
on queer theory and cinema for the British Film Institute.