Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
- Alternative title
- Race: The Floating Signifier
- Synopsis
- Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in people’s appearances come to be mistaken for essential differences. He traces how these misinterpretations function both to express and to reproduce dominant power relations. And he argues for more rigorous engagements with identity, representation, and contingency capable of acknowledging and respecting difference without essentialising it. An ideal introduction to how cultural studies intervenes in debates about race, representation, identity, and power.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Year of release
- 1997
- Subjects
- Philosophy; Sociology
- Keywords
- cultural theory; identity; race relations; racial identity; semiotics; racism
Credits
- Director
- Sut Jhally
- Producer
- Sut Jhally
- Editor
- Sut Jhally
- Contributor
- Stuart Hall
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 1
- Price
- $195.00
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 62 minutes
- Year
- 2014
Distributor
- Name
Media Education Foundation
- info@mediaed.org
- Web
- http://www.mediaed.org External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +1 413 584 8500
- Fax
- +1 413 586 8398
- Address
- 60 Masonic Street
Northampton
Massachusetts 01060
USA - Notes
- The MEF produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political and cultural impact of the mass media, particularly in the US, with emphasis on gender, health, politics, race and commercialism. Sale on DVD.
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