Stuart Hall
Actor
Biography
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential New Left Review. At Hoggart's invitation, he joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at Birmingham University in 1964. Hall took over from Hoggart as acting director of the CCCS in 1968, became its director in 1972, and remained there until 1979.[3] While at the centre, Hall is credited with playing a role in expanding the scope of cultural studies to deal with race and gender, and with helping to incorporate new ideas derived from the work of French theorists such as Michel Foucault.
Hall left the centre in 1979 to become a professor of sociology at the Open University. He was President of the British Sociological Association from 1995 to 1997. He retired from the Open University in 1997. After his death in 2014, Stuart Hall was described as "one of the most influential intellectuals of the last sixty years".
Filmography
Looking for Langston
as British (voice) 1989
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
as Himself 1996
The Stuart Hall Project
2013
The Spectre of Marxism
as Self 1983
It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum
as Himself 1979
The Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu
as Himself 1996
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
as Himself 1997
The Unfinished Conversation
as himself 2013
Catch a Fire
as Self 1996
CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
as Himself 1984
Breaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy
as Himself 1978
Black and White in Colour
as Narrator / Self 1992
Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
2021
Speaking with the Dead: Bill Schwarz on Preparing Stuart Hall’s Posthumous Memoir
2018
Stuart Hall: The Origins of Cultural Studies
2006
The Last Interview: Stuart Hall on the Politics of Cultural Studies
2016