The Stuart Hall Project / a film by John Akomfrah ; in association with BBC Archives, Arts Council England, Creation Rebel Films, Smoking Dogs Films, The Open University, Time/Image.
Publisher:
BFI,
Copyright Date:
℗♭2013
Description:
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages)
Date from package copyright on container. "BFI film forever." "The multiple lives of a multicultural subject made entirely from his film, television, radio and photographic archives; made also with musical fragments from his lifelong listening to Miles Davis." Program notes (24 p.) with essay by Mark Fisher, director's statement, interview with director, and review by Ashley Clark inserted in container.
Summary:
"A founding figure of contemporary cultural studies--and one of the most inspiring voices of the post-war Left--Stuart Hall's resounding and ongoing influence on British intellectual life commenced soon after he emigrated from Jamaica in 1951. Combining extensive archival imagery--television excerpts, home movies, family photos--with specially filmed material and a personally mixed Miles Davis soundtrack, Akomfrah's filmmaking approach matches the agility of Hall's intellect, its intimate play with memory, identity and scholarly impulse traversing the changing historical landscape of the second half of the 20th century."--BFI website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.