Event overview
To mark the publication of 'Race and the Cultural Industries' by Anamik Saha, the author will be in conversation with Sir Lenny Henry discussing 'diversity' in the media.
Studies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation. But there is little understanding of how and why representations of race in the media take the shape that they do. How, one might ask, is race created by cultural industries?
In this important new book, Anamik Saha encourages readers to focus on the production of representations of racial and ethnic minorities in film, television, music and the arts. His interdisciplinary approach combines critical media studies and media industries research with postcolonial studies and critical race perspectives to reveal how political economic forces and legacies of empire shape industrial cultural production and, in turn, media discourses around race.
To celebrate the book’s publication Anamik will be in conversation with actor, comedian and writer Sir Lenny Henry, who will reflect upon his career and recent activism regarding diversity in the cultural industries - issues that are subject of this book. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A with the audience and a wine reception.
About the participants:
Lenny Henry has been a comedian since the age of 16. He has risen from being a cult star on children’s television to becoming one of Britain’s best known comedians, as well as a writer and award-winning actor. In recent years Lenny has starred in The Comedy of Errors at The National, Fences at the Duchess Theatre, and recently made his Donmar Warehouse debut in ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’. As a co-founder of Comic Relief he was delighted to announce that the British Public has donated over £1billion to Comic Relief over the last 30 years. He has been a Trustee of the National Theatre since February 2016.
Anamik Saha is a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London and co-convenor of MA Race, Media and Social Justice. His research interests are in race and the media, with a particular focus on cultural production and the cultural industries. He has had his work published in journals including Media, Culture and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and European Journal of Cultural Studies. With David Hesmondhalgh (2013) the co-edited a special issue of Popular Communication on race and ethnicity in cultural production, and with Dave O’Brien, Kim Allen and Sam Friedman (2017) he co-edited a special issue of Cultural Sociology on inequalities in the cultural industries. His new book Race and the Cultural Industries came out in 2018, published by Polity Press.
Dates & times
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25 Apr 2018 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
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