The Cinema Representation Proportion to Social Realities in the Works of Stuart Hall

All media texts are to some extent representations of the reality. They are intentionally and consciously produced, censored, corrected, and propagated by their authors. Each representation is the translation or an artificial form of reality which exists in the scope of our understanding. Media representation significance relies on the fact that it shapes our understanding of the world around, and we need these media texts, that act as intermediaries, for shaping our feelings and consciousness. One of the scholars who methodically and by using linguistic and discourse theories, managed to play an important role in decoding media texts is Stuart Hall. He reached a discourse reading of media texts by adopting a structuralist view derived from the school of cultural studies, and clarified the proportion of these texts to their social representations to a large degree.