Stuart Hall Movies

  • 1989
    Looking for Langston

    Looking for Langston

    Looking for Langston

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    A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with...

    Looking for Langston
  • 1983
    The Spectre of Marxism

    The Spectre of Marxism

    The Spectre of Marxism

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    The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the...

    The Spectre of Marxism
  • 1996
    The Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu

    The Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu

    The Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu

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    Queer activist and artist Ajamu prepares to leave Brixton for an exhibition of his work in his hometown, Huddersfield.

    The Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu
  • 1996
    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

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    Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in...

    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
  • 2020
    White Riot

    White Riot

    White Riot

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    Exploring how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, when a group of artists united to take on the National Front, armed only with a fanzine...

    White Riot
  • 2013
    The Stuart Hall Project

    The Stuart Hall Project

    The Stuart Hall Project

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    A person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a particular region, nation, or state. Stuart Hall,...

    The Stuart Hall Project
  • 1997
    Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

    Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

    Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

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    Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations,...

    Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
  • 2021
    Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life

    Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life

    Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life

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    In one of Stuart Hall's most famous lectures, Hall speaks with dazzling precision about the responsibilities of intellectuals in the face of...

    Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
  • 1996
    Catch a Fire

    Catch a Fire

    Catch a Fire

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    This award winning drama/doc tells the story of Paul Bogle, leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion 1865. This rebellion had a major impact on attitudes...

    Catch a Fire
  • 1979
    It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum

    It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum

    It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum

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    Academic and activist Stuart Hall and actor and activist Maggie Steed present a rigorous deconstruction of the racism - both explicit and more...

    It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum
  • 2009
    Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall

    Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall

    Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall

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    In this stimulating and eloquent four-hour interview, conducted by the literary journalist Maya Jaggi and directed by Mike Dibb, Hall reflects on his...

    Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
  • 2006
    Stuart Hall: The Origins of Cultural Studies

    Stuart Hall: The Origins of Cultural Studies

    Stuart Hall: The Origins of Cultural Studies

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    In this re-mastered lecture from 1989, Stuart Hall provides an extraordinarily clear summary of the origins of cultural studies. Hall discusses the...

    Stuart Hall: The Origins of Cultural Studies
  • 1992
    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

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    A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992....

    Black and White in Colour
  • 1984
    CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall

    CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall

    CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall

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    Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) was a historian, journalist and contributor to Marxist thought. Stuart Hall was able to interview him for...

    CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
  • 2016
    The Last Interview: Stuart Hall on the Politics of Cultural Studies

    The Last Interview: Stuart Hall on the Politics of Cultural Studies

    The Last Interview: Stuart Hall on the Politics of Cultural Studies

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    In this interview conducted shortly before his death in 2014, Stuart Hall, one of the seminal figures in cultural studies, talks about his classic...

    The Last Interview: Stuart Hall on the Politics of Cultural Studies
  • 2018
    Speaking with the Dead: Bill Schwarz on Preparing Stuart Hall’s Posthumous Memoir

    Speaking with the Dead: Bill Schwarz on Preparing Stuart Hall’s Posthumous Memoir

    Speaking with the Dead: Bill Schwarz on Preparing Stuart Hall’s Posthumous Memoir

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    When the world-renowned cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall died in 2014, he left behind an unfinished 300,000-word memoir. In this interview...

    Speaking with the Dead: Bill Schwarz on Preparing Stuart Hall’s Posthumous Memoir
  • 1997
    Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier

    Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier

    Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier

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    Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in...

    Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier
  • 1978
    Breaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy

    Breaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy

    Breaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy

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    The use of an old Victorian law of ‘being a suspicious person’ commonly known as ‘sus’ was used against young black peoplein...

    Breaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy
  • 2013
    The Unfinished Conversation

    The Unfinished Conversation

    The Unfinished Conversation

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    Through juxtaposing and layering archival footage with text, music and photographs, The Unfinished Conversation crosses the memory landscape of...

    The Unfinished Conversation