Stuart Hall Representation Do media images help us understand how the What kinds of images of black people are we world works presented with Example Hollywood Shuffle 3 African Americans discussing freedom promise land o Who creates stereotypical representations of black people o Robert Taylor Black actor He learned how to act like a slave and you can too at the Black Acting School o The white men are teaching the black men how to be black Media Education Foundation Stuart Hall Representation and the Media o Sut Jhally University of Massachusetts at Amherst As we head into the 21st century the role of mass media and politics are being debated The term the politics of the image refers to this contestation and struggle over what is represented in the media o Stuart Hall Professor at Open University he works on the concerns of media roles in society Cultural studies representation The standard view of representation as accurate distorted Hall argues for a new view representation as creative active Hall shows that an image can have many different meanings Hall understands that communication is always linked with power Those who have power influence what gets represented in the media Interrogation of the image the idea of interrogation normally gets into the mind by asking hard questions to the subject o Marshal McCulin who discovered water But he was pretty sure it wasn t the fish o When we are surrounded by something images we come to accept them as natural in the real world We just swim through them observing them just as fish in the water o Cultural studies would want us to jump out of the water and look at it in a different way o Intellectual Vocation Stuart Hall the notion that ideas matter that they are worth struggling over That they have something to tell us and influence the world out there beyond the academy
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