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VIDEO INFORMATION |
VHS:
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DVD:
In Stock
Special Offer: Colleges buy Representation & the Media and Race, the Floating Signifier (either edition) together for $340 (save $50), High Schools buy both videos for $110 (save $40).
NOTE: There are two versions of Race, the Floating Signifier. See summary for more details.
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VHS:
62 minutes (Classroom Edition), 85 minutes (Reference Edition)
DVD:
contains both "reference" and "classroom" editions
Colleges and Universities
$195.00
Please specify classroom or reference edition.
High Schools and Non-Profits
$75.00 was
$125.00
Please specify classroom or reference edition.
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Reviews and Comments
"This is a marvelous opportunity to see Stuart Hall in action - he is a major force in the fields of communication and cultural studies. He is more than engaging, he is spellbinding."
-Ellen Wartella, Dean, College of Communication, University of Texas-Austin
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Race, the Floating Signifier
Featuring Stuart Hall
(1997)
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In this section:
Summary
Logistical Information
Biographical Summary
Reviews and Comments
Screenings and Festivals
Articles
Summary:
Arguing against the biological interpretation of racial difference, Hall asks us to pay close attention to the cultural processes by which the visible differences of appearance come to stand for natural or biological properties of human beings. Drawing upon the work of writers such as Frantz Fanon, he shows how race is a "discursive construct" and, because its meaning is never fixed, can be described as a "floating signifier."
The Reference Edition features, unedited, the full lecture that Hall delivered at Goldsmith's College in London (65 min), as well as the 20-min question-and-answer session that followed.
Logistical Information:
Executive Producer, Director, & Editor Sut Jhally
Co-produced by Joanna Hughes
Copyright 1996 SECTIONS: What More is there to Say about Race? / The Formal Rejection of Biological Racism / The Survival of Biological Thinking / The Badge of Race / Race as a Language, a Floating Signifier / But What About the Reality of Racial Discrimination & Violence? / Two Positions: The realist & the textual / A Third Position: The discursive / Religion: A first go at racial classification / Sleeping Easier: The cultural function of knowledge / Fixing Difference: The cultural function of science / Nature = Culture / Seeing is Believing / Genetics: Making sense of difference / Reading the Body / Why We Have to Move Beyond Reality / Analyzing the Stories of the Body / Why it Matters: Battling racism
Biographical Summary:
Stuart Hall is a seminal figure in the development of media and cultural studies, and is renowned as an inspirational public speaker and teacher.
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