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Stuart McPhail Hall, FBA was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist, political activist and sociologist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.

In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential New Left Review. At the invitation of Hoggart, Hall joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964. Hall took over from Hoggart as acting director of the Centre in 1968, became its director in 1972, and remained there until 1979. 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 like 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 1995–97. Hall retired from the Open University in 1997 and was a Professor Emeritus. British newspaper The Observer called him "one of the country's leading cultural theorists". Hall was also involved in the Black Arts Movement. Movie directors such as John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien also see him as one of their heroes.

Hall was married to Catherine Hall, a feminist professor of modern British history at University College London.

✵ 25. December 1929 – 10. February 2014
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Famous Stuart Hall Quotes

“O'Connell: It's been suggested […] by teachers that live football should be shown after kids have gone to bed. Is swearing in football really such a big deal?”

Stuart Hall

Rawling, Kelly answer
BBC Fighting Talk (2005)

“O'Connell: Let's have a break for the news so we can think about our careers.”

Stuart Hall

Sources: The Independent http://web.archive.org/web/20090509101853/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/bard-of-the-airwaves-stuart-hall-stuns-show-with-blackup-rant-528950.html, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/mar/17/radio.zimbabweandthemedia (both 17 March 2005).
BBC Fighting Talk (2005)

“Kelly:Welcome to the last ever Fighting Talk!”

Stuart Hall

BBC Fighting Talk (2005)

“O'Connell interrupts:Are we still on air?”

Stuart Hall

BBC Fighting Talk (2005)

“Hall: This is all nonsense [and] you're getting all hot under the collar about nothing. It's the Great British patois. All great truths begin as blasphemies, so why castigate Rooney, young tender sweet bud-on-the-vine [Wayne] Rooney. Your average ten year old can instruct you in oral and anal sex.”

Stuart Hall

O'Connell and Rawling swiftly interrupt.
BBC Fighting Talk (2005)

“When Steve McClaren said that he wasn't in the entertainment business, I asked him what he was doing in football, because the game is all about entertainment. Fans go to watch their team win, sure, but they also want to enjoy the game while they're about it”

Stuart Hall

Telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2317798/Stuart-Hall-enjoying-time-of-his-life.html (28 July 2007).

Stuart Hall Quotes

“It saddens me that the game has sold its soul to television. What we see now is a televisual game, and it cannot bear the weight of its publicity.”

Stuart Hall

Telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2317798/Stuart-Hall-enjoying-time-of-his-life.html (28 July 2007).

Soul , Game

“Hall continues: Swearing is endemic in our language. It's there to stay… realise it!”

Stuart Hall

BBC Fighting Talk (2005)

“Hall: Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a wonderful country - I've been there umpteen times and it is being brought to extinction by Mugabe. The average life expectancy is 33, so if you are not dying from Aids, malnutrition, starvation, deprivation or stagnation, don your flannels, black up, play leather on willow. Mugabe as captain and witch doctor, imagine him out at Lord's casting a tincture of bats' tongues and gorillas' gonads.”

Stuart Hall

BBC Fighting Talk (2005)

Life , Imagination , Time , Country

“Hall continues: Give cricket a shot in the bails it needs!”

Stuart Hall

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BBC Fighting Talk (2005)

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