Table of Contents: “…., Star Signs, BFI, 1982) Additional materials: the essays 'The meaning of Tom Jones' (CCCS working paper, 1971), 'Diana Ross' (Marxism Today, 1982), 'Paul Robeson: Militant Humanism' (Marxism Today, 1983), 'Never too thin' (Sight and Sound, 1993), 'Charles Hawtrey: carrying on regardless' (Attitude, 1994), 'Between Parturition and Manufacture' (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018) IN DEFENCE OF DISCO and other essays on entertainment and ideology Key essay: 'In defence of disco' (Gay Left, 1979) Additional materials: the essays 'Coronation Street' (introduction to Dyer, ed., Coronation Street, BFI, 1981), 'Taking popular television seriously' (in David Lusted and Phillip Drummond, eds., TV and Schooling, BFI, 1985), 'Brief Affairs' (New Statesman and Society, 1989), 'The colour of entertainment' (Sight and Sound, 1995), 'The space of happiness in the musical' (Aura, 1998); 'Jurassic World and Procreation Anxiety' (Film Quarterly, 2015) GETTING OVER THE RAINBOW and other essays on gay liberation Key essay: 'Getting over the rainbow: identity and pleasure in gay cultural politics' (in George Bridges and Rosalind Brunt, eds., Silver Linings, Lawrence and Wishart, 1981) Additional materials: the essays 'Gays and Class' (Gay Left, 1976), 'It's being so camp as keeps us going' (Playguy, 1976), 'Pasolini and homosexuality' (in Paul Willemen, ed., Pier Paolo Pasolini, BFI, 1977), 'Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies' (book review, Studies in Visual Communication, 1983), 'Believing in fairies: the author and the homosexual' (in Diana Fuss, ed., Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, Routledge, 1991), 'Coming out as going in: the image of the homosexual as a sad young man' (from The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation, Routledge, 1993), 'Nice young men who sell antiques: gay men in heritage cinema' (in Ginette Vincendeau, ed., Film/Literature/Heritage, BFI, 2001), 'Eisenstein's penis' (newly commissioned, 2021) WHITE and other essays on representation and visibility Key essay: 'White' (Screen, 1988) Additional materials: the essays 'The role of stereotypes' (in Jim Cook and Mike Lewington, eds., Images of Alcoholism, BFI, 1979), 'Don't look now: the instabilities of the male pin-up' (Screen, 1982), 'Rock: the last guy you'd have figured?' …”
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