| Author 1: | Richard Dyer | |
| Title: | White: Essays on Race and Culture | |
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| Place: | London/New York | |
| Publisher: | Routledge | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
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| Location: | FB Neuphilologie: PY 430.204 | |
| Synopsis: | 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 has been 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 case studies, he discusses the representations of whiteness in muscle-man action cinema, from Italian 'peplum' movies to the Tarzan and Rambo series; he shows the construction of whiteness in photography and cinema in the lighting of white and black faces, analyzes 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. | |
| Keyword 1: | white | |
| Keyword 2: | whiteness | |
| Keyword 3: | representation | |
| Keyword 4: | ethnicity | |
| Keyword 5: | race | |
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