Acknowledgements Introduction A STAR IS BORN and other essays on stardom and image Key essay: '' A Star is Born and the Construction of Authenticity'' (in Christine Gledhill, ed., Star Signs , BFI, 1982) Additional materials: the essays ''The meaning of Tom Jones'' (CCCS working paper, 1971), ''Diana Ross'' ( Marxism Today , 1982), ''Paul Robeson: Militant Humanism'' ( Marxism Today , 1983), ''Never too thin'' ( Sight and Sound , 1993), ''Charles Hawtrey: carrying on regardless'' ( Attitude , 1994), ''Between Parturition and Manufacture'' ( Los Angeles Review of Books , 2018) IN DEFENCE OF DISCO and other essays on entertainment and ideology Key essay: ''In defence of disco'' ( Gay Left , 1979) Additional materials: the essays '' Coronation Street '' (introduction to Dyer, ed., Coronation Street , BFI, 1981), ''Taking popular television seriously'' (in David Lusted and Phillip Drummond, eds., TV and Schooling , BFI, 1985), ''Brief Affairs'' ( New Statesman and Society , 1989), ''The colour of entertainment'' ( Sight and Sound , 1995), ''The space of happiness in the musical'' ( Aura , 1998); '' Jurassic World and Procreation Anxiety'' ( Film Quarterly , 2015) GETTING OVER THE RAINBOW and other essays on gay liberation Key essay: ''Getting over the rainbow: identity and pleasure in gay cultural politics'' (in George Bridges and Rosalind Brunt, eds., Silver Linings , Lawrence and Wishart, 1981) Additional materials: the essays ''Gays and Class'' ( Gay Left , 1976), ''It''s being so camp as keeps us going'' ( Playguy , 1976), ''Pasolini and homosexuality'' (in Paul Willemen, ed., Pier Paolo Pasolini , BFI, 1977), ''Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies '' (book review, Studies in Visual Communication , 1983), ''Believing in fairies: the author and the homosexual'' (in Diana Fuss, ed., Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories , Routledge, 1991), ''Coming out as going in: the image of the homosexual as a sad young man'' (from The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation , Routledge, 1993), ''Nice young men who sell antiques: gay men in heritage cinema'' (in Ginette Vincendeau, ed., Film/Literature/Heritage , BFI, 2001), ''Eisenstein''s penis'' (newly commissioned, 2021) WHITE and other essays on representation and visibility Key essay: ''White'' ( Screen , 1988) Additional materials: the essays ''The role of stereotypes'' (in Jim Cook and Mike Lewington, eds.

, Images of Alcoholism , BFI, 1979), ''Don''t look now: the instabilities of the male pin-up'' ( Screen , 1982), ''Rock: the last guy you''d have figured?'' ( The Body Politic , 1985), ''Heterosexuality'' (in Andy Medhurst and Sally Munt, eds., Lesbian and Gay Studies , Cassell, 1997), ''Is the camera racist?'' ( The Guardian , 1997), ''White enough'' (in Yannis Tzioumakis and Sian Lincoln, eds., The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture , Wayne State University Press, 2013), ''The President''s Hair'' ( The Platform , 2018) IT''S IN HIS KISS and other essays on pleasure and disgust Key essay: ''It''s in his kiss!: vampirism as homosexuality, homosexuality as vampirism'' (in Susannah Radstone, ed., Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction , Lawrence and Wishart, 1988) Additional materials: the essays ''Coming to terms: gay pornography'' ( Jump Cut , 1985), ''Dracula and desire'' ( Sight and Sound , 1993), ''Idol thoughts: orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography'' ( Critical Quarterly , 1994); extracts from Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema (BFI, 2015) THE PERSISTENCE OF TEXTUAL ANALYSIS and other essays on form and meaning Key essay: ''The persistence of textual analysis'' (newly commissioned, 2021) Additional materials: the essays ''The television situation'' (in the BFI pamphlet Light Entertainment , 1973), ''Action!'' ( Sight and Sound , 1994), ''Going Italian'' ( The Italianist , 2011), ''The Sissiness of Music in Rope and Tea and Sympathy '' (newly commissioned, 2021); extracts from BFI Classics on Seven (1999) and La Dolce Vita (2017), Pastiche (Routledge, 2006), and Nino Rota (BFI, 2010) These six sections are supplemented by a seventh section of interviews with Dyer conducted across the span of his career: MASCULINITY IS SO BORING and other interviews with Richard Dyer Key interview: ''Masculinity is so boring'', interview by Joe McElhaney published in Three or Four Things (1985) Additional interviews: ''To Be Reel'', interview by Matthew Rettenmund published in adult gay magazine Torso (1996); SCMS Fieldnotes interview by Barbara Klinger (2015); ''Pleasure/Obvious/Queer'', NECSUS interview by Catherine Grant and Jaap Kooijman (2016) This section also includes a new interview with Dyer by Davis and Kooijman, which focuses in particular on the 1970s and Dyer''s involvement with gay liberation politics. Conclusion Bibliography Index.