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Table of Contents: “…From alternative to cult : mapping post-alternative comedy -- Britain's top light entertainer and singer : Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and the cultification of light entertainment -- 'Careful now' : Graham Linehan : a case study in post-alternative sitcom -- Patchy in places : developments in post-alternative sketch comedy -- Community and intimacy : from laugh track to commentary track -- The 'Zooniverse' and other (furnished) comic worlds -- Are you sitting uncomfortably? …”
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Table of Contents: “…'You've Got to Be Able to Entertain People': The Encounter between Popular Music and the Worlds of Variety and 'Light Entertainment'; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Screening dance / Dave Allen -- Dance as light entertainment / John Fiske and John Hartley -- Dance & music video / Theresa Jill Buckland with Elizabeth Stewart -- Progressive programming / Chris de Marigny and Barbara Newman -- Ballet and contemporary dance on British television / Robert Penman -- Stage dance on television / Rob Lockyer -- Bridging a distance: television & dance / Colin Nears -- The collaborations: White Man Sleeps and Wyoming: a discussion / Stephanie Jordan -- Recent dance made for television / Sarah Rebidge -- You can see it like this or like that: Pina Bausch's Die Klage Der Kaiserin / Ana Sanchez-Colberg.…”

Table of Contents: “…Society -- Identity Light: Entertainment as a Vehicle for Self Development / Kate C. …”
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Table of Contents: “…., Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction, Lawrence and Wishart, 1988) Additional materials: the essays 'Coming to terms: gay pornography' (Jump Cut, 1985), 'Dracula and desire' (Sight and Sound, 1993), 'Idol thoughts: orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography' (Critical Quarterly, 1994); extracts from Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema (BFI, 2015) THE PERSISTENCE OF TEXTUAL ANALYSIS and other essays on form and meaning Key essay: 'The persistence of textual analysis' (newly commissioned, 2021) Additional materials: the essays 'The television situation' (in the BFI pamphlet Light Entertainment, 1973), 'Action!' (Sight and Sound, 1994), 'Going Italian' (The Italianist, 2011), 'The Sissiness of Music in Rope and Tea and Sympathy' (newly commissioned, 2021); extracts from BFI Classics on Seven (1999) and La Dolce Vita (2017), Pastiche (Routledge, 2006), and Nino Rota (BFI, 2010) These six sections are supplemented by a seventh section of interviews with Dyer conducted across the span of his career: MASCULINITY IS SO BORING and other interviews with Richard Dyer Key interview: 'Masculinity is so boring', interview by Joe McElhaney published in Three or Four Things (1985) Additional interviews: 'To Be Reel', interview by Matthew Rettenmund published in adult gay magazine Torso (1996); SCMS Fieldnotes interview by Barbara Klinger (2015); 'Pleasure/Obvious/Queer', NECSUS interview by Catherine Grant and Jaap Kooijman (2016) This section also includes a new interview with Dyer by Davis and Kooijman, which focuses in particular on the 1970s and Dyer's involvement with gay liberation politics. …”
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