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Richard Dyer is an academic and author, who founded the Chair of Film Studies at the University of Warwick and is now Professor of Film Studies at King’s College, London. He studied French and worked in the theatre before returning to academia, and in 1977 organised the first gay cinema event anywhere in the world at the National Film Theatre, London. The event was accompanied by the publication of Gays and Film (1977), a collection of essays edited by him. Stars (1979) was Dyer's first full book, a ground-breaking study which suggested that stars are an integral part of the way films work and that publicity materials and reviews are in turn an integral part of this. Next came Now You See It: Historical Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film (1990), which sets out to examine lesbian and gay films and their historical context, and Only Entertainment (1992) explores the constructed nature of ‘entertainment.’
Richard has contributed two works to the BFI Modern Classics series, on Brief Encounter (1993) and Seven (1999). A groundbreaking essay of his for Screen magazine was expanded to become a book, White: Essays on Race and Culture (1997), which developed his recurrent theme of cultural categorisation. Richard has appeared in several television documentaries on film and other aspects of popular culture, and his book The Culture of Queers (2001) was a general history of culture and homosexuality. He has also had published Pastiche: Knowing Imitation (2006), a definitive study of a key term in cultural analysis.
Recent books:
Pastiche (Routledge: 2006)
Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society (Routledge: 2004)
The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation (Routledge: 2002)
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