Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. Hall appeared widely on British media, taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding editor of New Left Review, and served as the director of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He is the author of Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History; Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands; and other books also published by Duke University Press.

David Morley is Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, and coeditor of Stuart Hall: Conversations, Projects, and Legacies.

A Note on the Text vii
Acknowledgments ix
General Introduction: A Life in Essays 1
Part I. Cultural Studies: Culture, Class, and Theory
Introduction 27
1. Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, and the Cultural Turn [2007] 35
2. Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms [1980] 47
3. Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies [1992] 71
Part II. Theoretical and Methodological Principles: Class, Race and Articulation
4. The Hinterland of Science: Ideology and the Sociology of Knowledge [1977] 111
5. Rethinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor [1977] 143
6. Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance [1980] 172
7. On Postmodernism and Articulation: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Larry Grossberg and Others [1986] 222
Part III. Media, Communications, Ideology, and Representation
8. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse [originally 1973; republished 2007] 257
9. External Influences on Broadcasting: The External/Internal Dialectic in Broadcasting—Television's Double-Blind [1972] 277
10. Culture, the Media, and the "Ideological Effect" [1977] 298
Part IV. Political Formations: Power as Process
11. Notes on Deconstructing "the Popular" [1981] 347
12. Policing the Crisis: Preface to the 35th Anniversary Edition [2013] (with Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts) 362
13. The Great Moving Right Show [1979] 374
Index 393
Place of First Publication 411