Talk:Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: This is a cursory overview of Hall's work, and would benefit from more work on inline citations, a deeper discussion of his theory of encoding/decoding, more complete bibliography, and further explanation of his impact on media studies in particular. Also, a photograph would be useful. Hall is a notable figure within media studies, and is widely cited, although his recognition beyond the field in the U.S. at least is limited. Bmurley 14:30, 9 December 2006 (UTC) bmurley (edit)

Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order was co-authored by Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts.

i am deleting the section that says he retired to be host of politically incorrect, its not true.

No mention of 'The Empire Strikes Back' in the bibliography. A seminal study of British policing policy under Thatcher in the 1980s. He has been very poorly served by this article, which gives no indication of the wealth of research he has undertaken Jatrius 13:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

Stuart Hall is a very famous and oft-cited cultural theorist in the UK, in so far as cultural theorists can be famous. I suppose he would only be known among the chattering classes, but I hope Wikipedia is prepared to accept the "notability" of academics who have made major contributions to their subject. I am a lay person when it comes to sociology, but I am familiar with Stuart Hall because he is frequently asked to comment on the radio and on television. I will read the notability guidelines and try to amass some references but in the meantime please do not delete this article. I will be out of reach of my computer for the next 10 days so it will be at least that long. btw I have not written, nor contributed much to, this article, but am just an "interested bystander". Rachel Pearce (talk) 23:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Not a proper reference for the article, but a few seconds' surfing produced this page, which shows that at least the BBC regards him as "one of the country's leading academics": http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/nightwaves/pip/f0qgk/ Rachel Pearce (talk) 23:52, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey everybody, I'm fairly new to editing wikipedia and I've been looking for a good place to make a contribution. This article seems to be a good place to start, as it needs a lot of work and doesn't seem to be getting much attention. I'm a cultural studies Grad Student and have some knowledge of Hall and access to plenty of sources, so I think I can do a good job here. I'm just going to go ahead and start working, but if anyone has any concerns just throw me a note! Afamiglietti (talk) 16:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC)