Documentary: The Stuart Hall project

Just posting this as I was thinking of showing this for Film club this week as part of the A2 media theory course.

Stuart Hall is one of my personal heroes, who always seemed to be the guy during media lessons and seminars that I used to think was always spot on about everything from Marxism to Identity.  A left wing intellectual from Jamaica who helped create a much more ambitious and accurate understanding of media audiences and the ways in which we negotiate with a text. He was hugely influential in so many ways but especially for his work around representations and his articulate and nearly always totally correct views ! (in my opinion!)

He's such a legend that they made, amongst other things,  a documentary about him and his work. A must watch for all media and sociology students. A great overview of his life can be found in the link to his obituary below.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall


Thank you Stuart Hall.