Product Description: Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema – a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train. Though it's a film made by men, it is the woman's voice we hear recounting the story of a small-town love affair and her renunciation of it...read more

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Product Description: Tina Keane first came to prominence in the late 1970s with her performance work and involvement in setting up London feminist film collective Circles. Since then she has become an internationally acclaimed artist working in a wide variety of media, including video, neon sculpture and installation...read more

Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication of the first edition in 1986. Dyer's illuminating study is based around case studies of three major stars: Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland. He draws on a wide range of sources, including the films in which each star appeared, to illustrate how each star's persona was constructed, and goes on to examine each within the context of particular issues in fan culture and stardom. Students of film and cultural studies will find this an invaluable part of there course reading. (view table of contents)

Everyone knows what entertainment is, but how can we begin to define it or even to talk about what we know? In Only Entertainment, Richard Dyer argues that we have to start any analysis of entertainment by understanding it as entertainment, as part of a `common sense' or cultural awareness which is always historically and culturally constructed. In a series of lucid and provocative essays, Dyer investigates the social construction as well as the aesthetics and ideology of entertainment. Dyer's subjects range from classical ballet to disco, from star pin-ups to pornography, and from classic serials to camp. his introduction places the writings in context of current cultural debates, and the concluding essay links ideas of pleasure to the politics of sexuality. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: American Cinema and Hollywood provides a clear and authoritative guide to one of the most important areas of film study. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it looks at the history of American cinema, the emergence of the studio system, the key characteristics of Hollywood films, and Hollywood's relationship with both American society and the world beyond...read more

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On its original publication this text was one of the first attempts to bring together all the various critical and theoretical approaches that have been made to the phenomenon of stardom. This revised edition features a new chapter by Paul McDonald.

Product Description: White people are not literally or symbolically white; nor are they uniquely virtuous and pure. Racial imagery and racial representation are central to the organisation of the contemporary world but, while there are many studies of images of black and Asian people, whiteness is an invisible racial position...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

How we are seen determines in part how we are treated; how we treat others is based on how we see them; such seeing comes from representation. "Images" searches through the resonances of the term "representation" analyzing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of and the material realities to which they refer. While retaining a sharp sense of the social functioning of images, Richard Dyer insists on the complexity and contradiction of even the most stereotypical examples, and on the political importance of their understanding. His analyses move from considerations of the strongly negative representation of "out" groups - especially women and gay men - asserting that poverty, harassment and discrimination is shored up and instituted by representation, to representations of dominant groups in society - men, heterosexuals, whites. Dyer's discussion encompasses the eclectic texts of contemporary culture: royalty, queens and dykes, politically correct labels, film noir, representations of Empire, and contemporary films such as "Night of the Living Dead".

Product Description: Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European countha are seldom successful eslewhere. Audiences themselves represent diverse class, gender and ethnic identities that complicate th equestoin of national cinema, not least with recent developments in formerly communist Eastern Europe and post-colonialist Western Europe...read more