Herbert Richard Hoggart
British academic.
Career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.
Raymond Henry Williams
Welsh Marxist theorist, academic, novelist and critic.
An influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture.
Writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature made a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts.
His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach.
Novels
Literary and cultural studies
Stuart McPhail Hall
Jamaican born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist and political activist.
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.
Was a founder of the influential New Left Review.
Hall's work covers issues of hegemony and cultural studies, taking a post-Gramscian stance. He regards language-use as operating within a framework of power, institutions and politics/economics.
Hall became one of the main proponents of reception theory, and developed Hall's Theory of encoding and decoding.
Reception theory is a version of reader response literary theory that emphasizes each particular reader's reception or interpretation in making meaning from a literary text.
Reception theory is generally referred to as audience reception in the analysis of communications models.
In literary studies, reception theory originated from the work of Hans-Robert Jauss.
Lawrence Grossberg
American scholar of cultural studies and popular culture.
Work focuses primarily on popular music and the politics of youth in the United States.
Widely known for his research in the philosophy of communication and culture.
More recent work explores the possibilities and limitations of alternative and emergent formations of modernity.
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