Richard Dyer

The Matter of Images (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Representations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term 'representation', analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and the material realities they refer to. Richard Dyer's analyses consider representations of 'out' groups and traditionally dominant groups alike, and encompass the eclectic texts of contemporary culture, from queers to straights, political correctness, representations of Empire and films including Gilda, Papillon and The Night of the Living Dead. Essays new to the second edition discuss Lillian Gish as the ultimate white movie star, the representation of whiteness in the South in Birth of a Nation, and society's fascination with serial killers.

The Matter of Images is distinctive in its commitment to writing politically about contemporary culture, while insisting on the importance of understanding the formal qualities and complexity of the images it investigates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135135096
• Artikelnr.: 39266060

Autorenporträt

Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College, London, and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has been honoured by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and Turku and Yale Universities, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Stars (1979), White (1997), The Culture of Queers (2002), Nino Rota (BFI, 2010) and In the Space of a Song (2012), and he is the author of BFI Film Classics on 'Se7en' (1999), Brief Encounter (2002, 2015) and La Dolce Vita (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 In a word
Chapter 3 The role of stereotypes
Chapter 4 Seen to be believed: some problems in the representation of gay people as typical
Chapter 5 Homosexuality and film noir
Chapter 6 Victim: hegemonic project
Chapter 7 Male sexuality in the media
Chapter 8 Brief affairs
Chapter 9 Papillon
Chapter 10 Three questions about serial killing
Chapter 11 Straight acting
Chapter 12 A Passage to India
Chapter 13 White
Chapter 14 Lillian Gish: a white star
Chapter 15 Into the light: the whiteness of the South in The Birth of a Nation