The Stuart Hall Project

2013 · 95 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 187 VOTES · DIR. John Akomfrah

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Overview

A person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a particular region, nation, or state. Stuart Hall, one of the most preeminent intellectuals on the Left in Britain, updates this definition as he eloquently theorizes that cultural identity is fluid—always morphing and stretching toward possibility but also constantly experiencing nostalgia for a past that can never be revisited.

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00:01:50 In this programme we look at
00:05:07 about this question than Stuart Hall
00:08:27 I was three shades darker than my family
00:11:36 ? With an old-fashioned mind...?
00:14:29 Michael Manley was already a prominent figure.
00:19:21 The West Indian immigrant looks upon coming to Britain rather as coming home
00:23:42 What we related to were all the struggles outside.
00:28:18 about what governments wanted their citizens to believe
00:31:54 less racially driven, less patriarchal in its forms
00:34:39 started mainly bypeople who'd left the Communist Party
00:38:01 and consider what more positive policies they can adopt in the future.
00:41:49 But in fact we know that successive historical changes
00:45:57 and the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.
00:49:27 is that you want to change the colour ofyour skin
00:52:23 Almost all of these films are about characters who are on the move
00:57:04 to become a writer and to confront the depression.
01:01:47 It's time we stand up and take over.
01:06:03 And this is really the beginnings of the exploration of new experiences
01:08:53 who they had been ruling for 400 years
01:11:39 and become more or less indistinguishable from them -
01:17:49 And when one takes it to that level
01:22:01 Some of them have to do with race and ethnicity.
01:27:04 a culture which in its variety and power astonishes - astonishes now -
01:30:12 And the reason why...

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Lines indexed1,017
Dialogue density10.7 lines / min
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Final line01:30:12

Production Record

DirectorJohn Akomfrah
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes187