Transcription of MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION TRANSCRIPT
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STUART HALLREPRESENTATION & THE MEDIAMEDIA EDUCATIONFOUNDATIONTRANSCRIPTC hallenging mediaSTUART HALLR epresentation & the MediaProduced & Directed by: Sut JhallyEdited by: Sanjay Talreja, Sut Jhally & Mary PatiernoFeaturing a lecture by Stuart Hall Professor, The Open UniversityIntroduced by Sut Jhally University of Massachusetts at Amherst MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION MEF 19972 INTRODUCTION[Text on Screen]Do MEDIA images help us understand how the world works?What kinds of images of Black people are we presented with?[Movie: Hollywood Shuffle] I don t know why we s leaving massa s house. He s been good to us. He feed uson Saturday, clothes us on Sunday, and then beat us on Monday, or was itTuesday? I don t Jasper, I doesn t wants to go! I s a house nigger, Jasper!-- Jasper, don t you wants freedom? We goin to the promised land, thepromised Promised Land? Cleveland?-- No No Jasper, the Promised Land!
of media studies work, that notion of representation is regarded as too literal and too straightforward; and the reason for that is because we want to ask the question of whether events – the meaning of people, groups, and what they’re doing, etc. – whether these things do have any one essential, fixed or true
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