Stuart Hall
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential New Left Review. At Hoggart's invitation, he joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at Birmingham University in 1964. Hall took over from Hoggart as acting director of the CCCS in 1968, became its director in 1972, and remained there until 1979.[3] While at the centre, Hall is credited with playing a role in expanding the scope of cultural studies to deal with race and gender, and with helping to incorporate new ideas derived from the work of French theorists such as Michel Foucault. Hall left the centre in 1979 to become a professor of sociology at the Open University. He was President of the British Sociological Association from 1995 to 1997. He retired from the Open University in 1997. After his death in 2014, Stuart Hall was described as "one of the most influential intellectuals of the last sixty years".
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as British voice (voice)A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem...
Movie pageThe Spectre of Marxism
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Movie pageThe Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu
as HimselfQueer activist and artist Ajamu prepares to leave Brixton for an exhibition of his work in his...
Movie pageFrantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
as HimselfExplores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born...
Movie pageWhite Riot
as Himself - Archival MaterialExploring how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, when a group of artists united to...
Movie pageThe Stuart Hall Project
as uncreditedA person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a...
Movie pageStuart Hall: Representation & the Media
as HimselfCultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the...
Movie pageStuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
as uncreditedIn one of Stuart Hall's most famous lectures, Hall speaks with dazzling precision about the...
Movie pageCatch a Fire
as SelfThis award winning drama/doc tells the story of Paul Bogle, leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion...
Movie pageIt Ain’t Half Racist, Mum
as HimselfAcademic and activist Stuart Hall and actor and activist Maggie Steed present a rigorous...
Movie pagePersonally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
as uncreditedIn this stimulating and eloquent four-hour interview, conducted by the literary journalist Maya...
Movie pageStuart Hall: The Origins of Cultural Studies
as uncreditedIn this re-mastered lecture from 1989, Stuart Hall provides an extraordinarily clear summary of...
Movie pageCLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
as HimselfCyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) was a historian, journalist and contributor to Marxist...
Movie pageThe Last Interview: Stuart Hall on the Politics of Cultural Studies
as uncreditedIn this interview conducted shortly before his death in 2014, Stuart Hall, one of the seminal...
Movie pageSpeaking with the Dead: Bill Schwarz on Preparing Stuart Hall’s Posthumous Memoir
as uncreditedWhen the world-renowned cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall died in 2014, he left behind...
Movie pageStuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
as HimselfStuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and...
Movie pageBreaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy
as HimselfThe use of an old Victorian law of ‘being a suspicious person’ commonly known as ‘sus’ was used...
Movie pageThe Unfinished Conversation
as himselfThrough juxtaposing and layering archival footage with text, music and photographs, The...
Movie pageRedemption Song
as Presenter / SelfJamaican-born Stuart Hall looks at the history of the Caribbean islands through interviews with...
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