Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College London, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, recipient of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies' Lifetime Achievement Award, and of Honorary Lifetime Membership of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. His pioneering work on gay and lesbian representation and on popular entertainment has been published in books including Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film (1990); White (1993); Stars (2nd edition, BFI, 1998); Pastiche (2006); In the Space of a Song (2011); Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling (BFI, 2010) and Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema (BFI, 2015). He is the author of BFI Film Classics on Se7en (1997); Brief Encounter (2015) and La dolce vita (2017 and 2020). He is a writer and reviewer for outlets including Sight & Sound, The Atlantic, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Glyn Davis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. Jaap Kooijman is Associate Professor in Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction - Glyn Davis and Jaap KooijmanI: A STAR IS BORN and other essays on stardom and image1. 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 ideology10. 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 liberation18. 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 visibility26. 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 meaning44. 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)Index

Richard Dyer is one of the most important film scholars in the world – establishing the fields of star and sexuality studies while exercising a huge influence on the analysis of race and gender in popular culture. It is remarkable that his work has not yet been collected in this kind of volume – perhaps because he is rightly careful about how to do it. In Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman, he has the perfect anthologists.