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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.
Contents
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)
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