Stuart Hall The Origins of Cultural Studies (2006)

In this remastered lecture from 1989 Stuart Hall provides an extraordinarily clear summary of the origins of cultural studies Hall discusses the founding of cultural studies at the University of Birmingham the fields baseline concern with issues of symbolic representation and power and how cultural studies ultimately gained an institutional foothold at the frontiers of intellectual and academic life by testing the fine line between intellectual rigor and social relevance An excellent introduction to Halls work and to the broader social political and economic concerns that have shaped cultural studies