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