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Item Details
| Title:
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WHITE
ESSAYS ON RACE AND CULTURE |
| By: |
Richard Dyer |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£24.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415095379 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415095372 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
17 July, 1997 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Whiteness is an invisible racial position, against which other ethnicities are examined. In White the author traces the representation of whiteness in the contexts of Christianity, colonialism and in a wide range of films. |
| Synopsis: |
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. At the level of racial representation, whites are not of a certain race. They are just the human race, a 'colour' against which other ethnicities are always examined. In White, Richard Dyer looks beyond the apparent unremarkability of whiteness and argues for the importance of analysing images of white people. Dyer traces the representation of whiteness by whites in Western visual culture, focusing on the mass media of photography, advertising, fine art, cinema and television. Dyer examines the representation of whiteness and the white body in the contexts of Christianity, 'race' and colonialism.In a series of absorbing case studies, he discusses the representations of whiteness in muscle-man action cinema, from Italian 'peplum' movies to the Tarzan and Rambo series; shows the construction of whiteness in photography and cinema in the lighting of white and black faces, and analyses the representation of white women in end-of-empire fictions such as The Jewel in the Crown, and traces the disturbing association of whiteness with death, in vampire narratives and dystopian films such as Blade Runner and the Aliens trilogy. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations (some colour) facsimiles (some colour), portraits (some colour) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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