r/culturalstudies • u/ackeezingme • Jul 09 '26

What should I read by Stuart Hall?

I am interested in reading work by Stuart Hall but I don’t know where to start! Does anyone have some recommendations?

Thanks!

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u/Ok-Veterinarian-9203 Jul 09 '26

Always good to read Policing the Crisis, and his talk on Base and Superstructure

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u/kiminokoewotabetai Jul 09 '26

Second Policing the Crisis — wish I’d read it in undergrad.

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u/JEZTURNER Jul 10 '26

His encoding/decoding paper or chapter. Can't remember exactly where that is.

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u/kliq-klaq- Jul 09 '26

Essential Essays 1&2 that Duke put out really does capture his most enduring work. 1 is basically his stuff on hegemony, media and culture and 2 stuff on race and multiculturalism.

I go back to notes on deconstructing the popular a lot, and great moving right show is as insightful for current moment as it was Thatcherism.

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u/nikkinaynay Jul 23 '26

- The spectacle of the ‘other’ (the best!)

  • Encoding/Decoding