Essential essays / Stuart Hall ; edited by David Morley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1. Foundations of cultural studies: The cultural turn [2007] -- Cultural studies : two paradigms [1980] -- Cultural studies and its theoretical legacies [1992] -- The hinterland of science : ideology and the sociology of knowledge [1977] -- Rethinking the base and superstructure metaphor [1977] -- Race, articulation, and societies structured in dominance [1980] -- On postmodernism and articulation: an interview with Stuart Hall, by Larry Grossberg [1986] -- Encoding and decoding in the television discourse [originally 1973; republished 2007] -- External influences on broadcasting : the external/internal dialectic in broadcasting? Television's double-bind [1972] -- Culture, the media, and the ideological effect [1977] -- Notes on deconstructing the popular [1981] -- Policing the crisis : preface to the 35th anniversary edition [2013] (with Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts) -- The great moving right show [1979].

Volume 2. Identity and diaspora: Gramsci's relevance for the study of race and ethnicity [1986] -- Old and new identities, old and new ethnicities [1991] -- What is this "Black" in Black popular culture? [1995] -- The multi-cultural question [1998] -- The West and the rest : discourse and power [1992] -- The formation of a diasporic intellectual : an interview with Kuan-Hsing Chen [1996] -- Thinking the diaspora : home thoughts from abroad [1999] -- Politics, contingency, strategy : an interview with David Scott [1997] -- At home and not at home : Stuart Hall in conversation with Les Back [2008] -- Through the prism of an intellectual life [2007].