Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media
analyses, from scholarly essays such as "Encoding and Decoding in the
Television Discourse" (1973) to other writings addressed to wider
publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the
development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of
television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He
attends to Britain's imperial history and the politics of race and
cultural identity as well as the media's relationship to the political
project of the state. Testifying to the range and agility of Hall's
critical and pedagogic engagement with contemporary media culture--and
also to his collaborative mode of working--this volume reaffirms his
stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the
continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.