"How refreshing and urgent to revisit Stuart Hall's formative ideas about racism, identity, ideology, and media at the very moment that media has become such a contested site and source of ideological work. Hall's searing and critical insights about what media does, how it works, and why it matters have never been as pressing as they are today. In our global and national media ecologies where disputes over facts, epistemological turmoil, fake news, and ideological rigidities are routine, Charlotte Brunsdon's curated collection of Hall's essays on the media is a remarkable and indispensable gift."–Herman Gray, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz