James Procter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1060070 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Procter |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Procter |
| ASSINATURA | PROCTER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newcastle University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Scripting Empire
Scripting Empire recovers the cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of decolonization, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and intellectuals became broadcasters, producers, editors, and scriptwriters at the corporation. They included Una Marson, Langston Hughes, Louise Be…
Transnational Cultural Exchange
While recent scholarship on radio has begun to reveal the important role played by otherwise discrete areas of the BBC, notably the Indian Section of the wartime Eastern Service (1941-1945), and the West Indian literary magazine programme: 'Caribbean Voices' (1944-1958), there has been less exploration of the exchanges and friendships between West Indian, African, and South Asian artists across different programmes. Equally, the pragmatic factors…
Una Marson at the BBC
This essay focuses on the Jamaican poet, dramatist, and broadcaster Una Marson (1905-65) and her turbulent career at the BBC between 1939 and 1946. Drawing on a range of unpublished archival sources, including files recently vetted and released for research since the publication of Delia Jarrett-Macauley's authoritative biography of Marson in 1998, the essay has two primary aims. First, to recover in greater detail and in more holistic terms than…
Not Reading Brick Lane
When someone becomes or does not become a reader - and how we make a chim to or refuse these kinds of identity - clearly matters within globalued cultures, where the challenges of literary representation quickly become problems of cultural misrepresentation. Yet precisely because not reading would appear to amount to nothing, its significance remains unexplored. In order to trace the conjunctural and multiple meanings of not reading, this essay e…
Introduction
Let us read slowly, word for word. Gayatri Spivak1 Reading seems remote from the urgency of our times. Reading is slow, staggeringly inefficient, disconcertingly beyond measure, lacking substance. Readers are distracted subjects, their bodies immobile, the book a barrier to the immediacy and interaction of the social world beyond. Reading, like readers, would not appear to do very much. Nevertheless, and apparently oblivious to Franco Moretti's p…
Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas
Reading, Taste and Postcolonial Studies
This essay seeks to address and account for the central but paradoxically neglected role of reading and readers in postcolonial studies. Focusing closely on recorded book group discussions of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, it pursues a distinction between lay readers and professional readers of postcolonial fiction in order to examine both the specificity and limits of academic reading. Drawing on the work of John Guillory, David Carter, Rita…
Encoding/Decoding
The terms encoding and decoding are keywords within a theory of communication first developed by Stuart Hall (1973). This paper challenges the established, empirical theories of mass communications research, which assume media messages are relatively transparent and stable. Hall uses the terms encoding and decoding to demonstrate that the media message is neither transparent, nor dependent on the competence of individual receivers/viewers, but is…
New Ethnicities, the Novel, and the Burdens of Representation
This chapter contains sections titled: Cheering Fictions The Second Moment Difference, Inc.? White Teeth Brick Lane
Stuart Hall
James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy. Stuart Hall has been pivotal to the development of cultural studies during the past forty years. Whether as director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, or as one of the leading public intellectuals of the postwar period, he has helped transform…
Devolving Black British
This paper was part of a talk given to A-level students at Hammersmith and Fulham College, London in conjunction with the Black History Month of October 2003. The talk aimed to introduce students to a handful of key black and British Asian writers, texts and films across the postwar period using the notion of ‘devolution’. Spiralling outwards through three key symbolic locations – central London, the inner city and the suburbs – it hints at how i…
Reading, Taste and Postcolonial Studies
This essay seeks to address and account for the central but paradoxically neglected role of reading and readers in postcolonial studies. Focusing closely on recorded book group discussions of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, it pursues a distinction between lay readers and professional readers of postcolonial fiction in order to examine both the specificity and limits of academic reading. Drawing on the work of John Guillory, David Carter, Rita…
Una Marson at the BBC
This essay focuses on the Jamaican poet, dramatist, and broadcaster Una Marson (1905-65) and her turbulent career at the BBC between 1939 and 1946. Drawing on a range of unpublished archival sources, including files recently vetted and released for research since the publication of Delia Jarrett-Macauley's authoritative biography of Marson in 1998, the essay has two primary aims. First, to recover in greater detail and in more holistic terms than…
Stuart Hall
James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy. Stuart Hall has been pivotal to the development of cultural studies during the past forty years. Whether as director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, or as one of the leading public intellectuals of the postwar period, he has helped transform…
Devolving Black British
This paper was part of a talk given to A-level students at Hammersmith and Fulham College, London in conjunction with the Black History Month of October 2003. The talk aimed to introduce students to a handful of key black and British Asian writers, texts and films across the postwar period using the notion of ‘devolution’. Spiralling outwards through three key symbolic locations – central London, the inner city and the suburbs – it hints at how i…
New Ethnicities, the Novel, and the Burdens of Representation
This chapter contains sections titled: Cheering Fictions The Second Moment Difference, Inc.? White Teeth Brick Lane
Encoding/Decoding
The terms encoding and decoding are keywords within a theory of communication first developed by Stuart Hall (1973). This paper challenges the established, empirical theories of mass communications research, which assume media messages are relatively transparent and stable. Hall uses the terms encoding and decoding to demonstrate that the media message is neither transparent, nor dependent on the competence of individual receivers/viewers, but is…
Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas
Reading, Taste and Postcolonial Studies
This essay seeks to address and account for the central but paradoxically neglected role of reading and readers in postcolonial studies. Focusing closely on recorded book group discussions of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, it pursues a distinction between lay readers and professional readers of postcolonial fiction in order to examine both the specificity and limits of academic reading. Drawing on the work of John Guillory, David Carter, Rita…
Not Reading Brick Lane
When someone becomes or does not become a reader - and how we make a chim to or refuse these kinds of identity - clearly matters within globalued cultures, where the challenges of literary representation quickly become problems of cultural misrepresentation. Yet precisely because not reading would appear to amount to nothing, its significance remains unexplored. In order to trace the conjunctural and multiple meanings of not reading, this essay e…
Introduction
Let us read slowly, word for word. Gayatri Spivak1 Reading seems remote from the urgency of our times. Reading is slow, staggeringly inefficient, disconcertingly beyond measure, lacking substance. Readers are distracted subjects, their bodies immobile, the book a barrier to the immediacy and interaction of the social world beyond. Reading, like readers, would not appear to do very much. Nevertheless, and apparently oblivious to Franco Moretti's p…
Una Marson at the BBC
This essay focuses on the Jamaican poet, dramatist, and broadcaster Una Marson (1905-65) and her turbulent career at the BBC between 1939 and 1946. Drawing on a range of unpublished archival sources, including files recently vetted and released for research since the publication of Delia Jarrett-Macauley's authoritative biography of Marson in 1998, the essay has two primary aims. First, to recover in greater detail and in more holistic terms than…
Transnational Cultural Exchange
While recent scholarship on radio has begun to reveal the important role played by otherwise discrete areas of the BBC, notably the Indian Section of the wartime Eastern Service (1941-1945), and the West Indian literary magazine programme: 'Caribbean Voices' (1944-1958), there has been less exploration of the exchanges and friendships between West Indian, African, and South Asian artists across different programmes. Equally, the pragmatic factors…
Scripting Empire
Scripting Empire recovers the cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of decolonization, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and intellectuals became broadcasters, producers, editors, and scriptwriters at the corporation. They included Una Marson, Langston Hughes, Louise Be…
History (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Media studies (5 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras) · Art history (3 obras)