Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication of the first edition in 1986. Dyer's illuminating study is based around case studies of three major stars: Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland. He draws on a wide range of sources, including the films in which each star appeared, to illustrate how each star's persona was constructed, and goes on to examine each within the context of particular issues in fan culture and stardom. Students of film and cultural studies will find this an invaluable part of there course reading.

Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Dyer, Richard

Social Sciences

St.Martin's Press

Now you see it: Studies on lesbian and gay film

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

Now You See It sets out to examine lesbian/gay films and their historical contexts. It provides a record of these films up to 1980 and places them firmly in their historical contexts, thereby providing a fascinating case study of this dynamic area of cultural production.

Now You See It: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film

From a well-known scholar of film and cultural studies, Only Entertainment presents an investigation into the social construction, aesthetics and ideology of entertainment.  From classical ballet to disco, from start pin-ups to pornography and from classic serials to camp, in a series of lucid and provocative essays, Richard Dyer argues that we have to start any analysis of entertainment by understanding it as entertainment, as part of a ‘common sense’ or cultural awareness which is historically and culturally constructed.  Dyer’s clear introduction places the writings in the context of current cultural debates, and the concluding essays link ideas of pleasure to the politics of sexuality. A must-read for any student of media & cultural studies, and of definite benefit to gender studies students too.

Only Entertainment

Movies

Everyone knows what entertainment is, but how can we begin to define it or even to talk about what we know? In Only Entertainment, Richard Dyer argues that we have to start any analysis of entertainment by understanding it as entertainment, as part of a `common sense' or cultural awareness which is always historically and culturally constructed. In a series of lucid and provocative essays, Dyer investigates the social construction as well as the aesthetics and ideology of entertainment. Dyer's subjects range from classical ballet to disco, from star pin-ups to pornography, and from classic serials to camp. his introduction places the writings in context of current cultural debates, and the concluding essay links ideas of pleasure to the politics of sexuality.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations

In the second edition of this classic book, Dyer analyses culture from royalty to serial killers, political correctnesss and films.

Popular European Cinema

Through their individual studies, the contributors open up a new area of study, using the medium of film to focus on and celebrate the diversities of popular European culture.

Vincendeau, Ginette

White people are not literally or symbolically white; nor are they uniquely virtuous and pure. Racial imagery and racial representation are central to the organisation of the contemporary world but, while there are many studies of images of black and Asian people, whiteness is an invisible racial position. At the level of racial representation, whites are not of a certain race. They are just the human race, a 'colour' against which other ethnicities are always examined. In White, Richard Dyer looks beyond the apparent unremarkability of whiteness and argues for the importance of analysing images of white people. Dyer traces the representation of whiteness by whites in Western visual culture, focusing on the mass media of photography, advertising, fine art, cinema and television. Dyer examines the representation of whiteness and the white body in the contexts of Christianity, 'race' and colonialism. In a series of absorbing case studies, he discusses the representations of whiteness in muscle-man action cinema, from Italian 'peplum' movies to the Tarzan and Rambo series; shows the construction of whiteness in photography and cinema in the lighting of white and black faces, and analyses the representation of white women in end-of-empire fictions such as The Jewel in the Crown, and traces the disturbing association of whiteness with death, in vampire narratives and dystopian films such as Blade Runner and the Aliens trilogy.

White: Essays on Race and Culture

Arts & Photography

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Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society

Now you see it: Studies on lesbian and gay film

Now You See It: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film

Only Entertainment

Only Entertainment

The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations

The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations

Popular European Cinema

White: Essays on Race and Culture

White: Essays on Race and Culture