The Richard Dyer Reader (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding of stardom and celebrity, gay and queer politics and cultural history, film music, race and whiteness and the pleasures of popular entertainment.

The Richard Dyer Reader brings together for the first time key writings by this vital and influential figure, many of which are not otherwise available. The anthology guides readers through Dyer's prolific and rich output through six thematic selections of essays and extracts, each centred on a key theme in Dyer's work: stardom and the image; entertainment and ideology; gay politics and representation; whiteness; the pleasures of popular entertainment, and textual analysis. A seventh section comprises a selection of interviews conducted across the span of his career, as well as a new interview with editors Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman.

The book will provide an introduction for those new to Dyer's writings, as well as offering a fresh perspective for readers with a more comprehensive knowledge of his work. The collection includes archival and recent pieces of writing never previously anthologised, newly commissioned essays, a substantial introduction to Dyer's life and work and framing introduction to each section.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839023187
• Artikelnr.: 68462353

Autorenporträt

Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College London, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, recipient of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies' Lifetime Achievement Award, and of Honorary Lifetime Membership of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. His pioneering work on gay and lesbian representation and on popular entertainment has been published in books including Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film (1990); White (1993); Stars (2nd edition, BFI, 1998); Pastiche (2006); In the Space of a Song (2011); Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling (BFI, 2010) and Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema (BFI, 2015). He is the author of BFI Film Classics on Se7en (1997); Brief Encounter (2015) and La dolce vita (2017 and 2020). He is a writer and reviewer for outlets including Sight & Sound, The Atlantic, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Glyn Davis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. Jaap Kooijman is Associate Professor in Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction - Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman I: A STAR IS
BORN and other essays on stardom and image 1. A Star is Born and the
construction of authenticity (1981) 2. The meaning of Tom Jones (1971) 3.
Gene Kelly (1972) 4. Jane Fonda (1979) 5. The way she is (1981) 6. Diana
Ross (1982) 7. Never too thin (1993) 8. Charles Hawtrey (1994) 9. Between
parturition and manufacture (2018) II: IN DEFENCE OF DISCO and other essays
on entertainment and ideology 10. In defence of disco (1979) 11. Views of
Nationwide go wide (1980) 12. Coronation Street (1981) 13. Tea and cocoa
tele (1982) 14. Bad for a laugh (1982) 15. Taking popular television
seriously (1985) 16. The colour of entertainment (1995) 17. Jurassic World
and procreation anxiety (2015) III: GETTING OVER THE RAINBOW and other
essays on gay liberation 18. Getting over the rainbow: identity and
pleasure in gay cultural politics (1981) 19. Notes on gays and class (1976)
20. Pasolini and homosexuality (1977) 21. Taxi zum Klo (1982) 22. Vito
Russo, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies (1983) 23. Rock:
the last guy you'd have figured? (1985) 24. Nice young men who sell
antiques: gay men in heritage cinema (2001) 25. The idea of a gay icon
(2009) IV: WHITE and other essays on representation and visibility 26.
White (1988) 27. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the right to love oneself (1968)
28. The role of stereotypes (1979) 29. Of rage and despair (1981) 30. Don't
look now: the instabilities of the male pin-up (1982) 31. Heterosexuality
(1997) 32. Is the camera racist? (1997) 33. White enough (2013) 34. The
president's hair (2018) V: COMING TO TERMS and other essays on bodies and
affect 35. Male gay porn: coming to terms (1985) 36. Scorpio Rising (1981)
37. Why dance? (1981) 38. Old briefs for new (1989) 39. Dracula and desire
(1993) 40. Idol thoughts: orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography
(1994) 41. ACTION! (1994) 42. The same over and over (2015) 43. Fond of
little tunes: the sissiness of music in Rope and Tea and Sympathy (2023)
VI: THE PERSISTENCE OF TEXTUAL ANALYSIS and other essays on form and
meaning 44. The persistence of textual analysis (2023) 45. The television
situation (1973) 46. The Towering Inferno (1975) 47. Notes on textual
analysis (1981) 48. The space of happiness in the musical (1998) 49. Sound
in Seven (1999) 50. The talented Mr Rota (2004) 51. Far from Heaven (2007)
52. Going Italian (2011) 53. Eisenstein's penis (2023) VII: MASCULINITY IS
SO BORING and other conversations with Richard Dyer 54. Masculinity is so
boring (1985) (with Joe McElhaney) 55. To be reel (1997) (with Matthew
Rettenmund) 56. Pleasure obvious queer (2016) (with Catherine Grant and
Jaap Kooijman) 57. Writing out of love or politics (2023) (with Glyn Davis
and Jaap Kooijman) Index