Author: Richard Dyer MacCann
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: 1920s, films
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1996-12-26
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0810832569
ISBN-13: 9780810832565

Contains essays and articles from seventeen noted film studies experts, including Lewis Jacobs, Tom Milne, John Tibbetts, Gaylord Carter, Robert and Helen Merrell Lynd, and Anthony Slide. Chapters provide the reader with a well-rounded view of the societal influences that inspired the films and the techniques that directors, filmmakers, and actors used to portray the world around them. Appendixes list studio activity in the 20s, give listings of the titles and directors noted in all five volumes of the series, and provide annotations for each film.

Authors:William G. Dyer, W. G. Dyer, Jeffrey H. Dyer,  
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: team, performance, improving, proven, building, strategies
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-02-09
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0787988936
ISBN-13: 9780787988937

This book is filled with the concepts, ideas, and practical suggestions that are needed for any manager to have at hand if he or she is a member or creator of a committee, team, task-force, or any other activity involving collaboration among several people. The ideas are proven by several decades of experience and well-supported in the text with numerous examples.

Author: Richard Dyer
Publisher: British Film Institute
Keywords: classics, modern, bfi, seven
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1999-05-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0851707238
ISBN-13: 9780851707235

Author: Richard Dyer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: entertainment
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-06-14
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0415254973
ISBN-13: 9780415254977

Only Entertainment is a classic collection of essays on entertainment and the pleasures of popular culture. Richard Dyer argues that any analysis of entertainment begins with recognizing that entertainment is part of a "common sense" which is always historically and culturally constructed. Dyer examines this social construction of entertainment without rejecting aesthetic or ideological criticism, and his subjects range from The Sound of Music to action cinema, classical ballet to disco, star pin-ups to pornography. The second edition features a new introduction placing the essays in the con

Author: Richard Dyer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: queers, culture
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-12-28
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415223768
ISBN-13: 9780415223768

This study of gay male culture from the early gay liberation movement to today’s ’post-queer’ environment explores key topics such as fashion, vampires, film noir and even stars like Rock Hudson and Charles Hawtrey

Author: Richard Dyer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: society, stars, film, bodies, heavenly
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-12-19
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 041531027X
ISBN-13: 9780415310277

Richard Dyer’s classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated for a second edition, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars. 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. Dyer

Author: Richard Dyer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-12-06
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 041525499X
ISBN-13: 9780415254991

Now You See It, Richard Dyer’s groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction by Juliane Pidduck outlining developments in lesbian and gay cinema since 1990, and a new chapter entitled "Sweden 1916: Taking Off." Now You See It examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D’Amour, and Word Is Out, in their lesbian/gay context as well as bringing to light many other forgotten but remarkable films. Each film is examined in detail in relation to both film type and tradition and the sexu