Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (Comedia)

Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (Comedia) by Chen, Kuan-Hsing. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415088046.

Stuart Halls 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 Halls 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 Halls 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, which includes work by Angela McRobbie, Kobena Mercer, John Fiske, Charlotte Brunsdon, Ien Ang and Isaac Julien, provides a detailed analysis of Halls 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 Halls writings.