Stuart Hall

<p>Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. <em>Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies </em> is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall's enormously influential writings on cultural studies and its concerns: the relationship with Marxism; postmodernism and 'New Times' in cultural and political thought; the development of cultural studies as an international and postcolonial phenomenon and Hall's engagement with urgent and abiding questions of 'race' ethnicity and identity.<br>In addition to presenting classic writings by Hall and new interviews with Hall in dialogue with Kuan-Hsing Chen the collection which includes work by Angela McRobbie Kobena Mercer John Fiske Charlotte Brunsdon Ien Ang and Isaac Julien provides a detailed analysis of Hall's work and his contribution to the development of cultural studies by leading cultural critics and cultural practitioners. The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Stuart Hall's writings.</p>