Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review
When the writer and academic Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964, he invited Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, to join him as its first research fellow. Four years later Hall became acting director and, in 1972, director. Cultural studies was then a minority pursuit: half a century on it is everywhere, generating a wealth of significant work even if, in its institutionalised form, it can include intellectual positions that Hall could never endorse.
The foundations of cultural studies lay in an insistence on taking popular, low-status cultural forms seriously and tracing the interweaving threads of culture, power and politics. Its interdisciplinary perspectives drew on literary theory, linguistics and cultural anthropology in order to analyse subjects as diverse as youth sub-cultures, popular media and gendered and ethnic identities – thus creating something of a model,...
When the writer and academic Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964, he invited Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, to join him as its first research fellow. Four years later Hall became acting director and, in 1972, director. Cultural studies was then a minority pursuit: half a century on it is everywhere, generating a wealth of significant work even if, in its institutionalised form, it can include intellectual positions that Hall could never endorse.
The foundations of cultural studies lay in an insistence on taking popular, low-status cultural forms seriously and tracing the interweaving threads of culture, power and politics. Its interdisciplinary perspectives drew on literary theory, linguistics and cultural anthropology in order to analyse subjects as diverse as youth sub-cultures, popular media and gendered and ethnic identities – thus creating something of a model,...
- 2/11/2014
- by David Morley, Bill Schwarz
- The Guardian - Film News
Laurie Taylor is joined by feisty former MP Ann Widdecombe for a lively discussion on a broad range of topics, from homosexuality and the expenses scandal to pasta. Missed your favourite show, forgot to record it and can't wait for the repeat? Then why not watch TV online, check it out on Sky Player - simply register and start watching straight away.
- 7/16/2010
- Sky TV
Outspoken pop princess Lily Allen discusses growing up with a famous family, battling depression, and being a star in the modern age of celebrity in an interview with Laurie Taylor. Missed your favourite show, forgot to record it and can't wait for the repeat? Then why not watch TV online, check it out on Sky Player - simply register and start watching straight away.
- 7/2/2010
- Sky TV
In Confidence delves beneath the surface of some of the most creative spirits of the decade in probing interviews by critically acclaimed presenter Laurie Taylor. Tonight it’s the turn of pop princess Lily Allen. Damien Hirst, Lily Allen, Richard Dawkins and David Starkey take Sky Arts 1 into their confidence, along with other colourful and controversial celebrities in intimate high definition interviews.
- 6/7/2010
- Sky TV
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