White - Dyer, Richard

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Résumé :

Now twenty years since its initial release, Richard Dyer's classic text White remains a groundbreaking and insightful study of the representation of whiteness in Western visual culture.

White explores how, while racial representation is central to the organisation of the contemporary world, white people have remained a largely unexamined category in sharp contrast to the many studies of images of black and Asian peoples. Looking beyond the apparent unremarkability of whiteness, Dyer demonstrates the importance of analysing images of white people.

Dyer places this representation within the contexts of Christianity, 'race' and colonialism. In a series of absorbing case studies, he shows the construction of whiteness in the technology of photography and film as part of a wider 'culture of light'...

Biographie:

Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus at King's College London and Professorial Fellow at St Andrews University. He has written on stars, entertainment and representation and lesbian and gay culture. He is the author of In the Space of a Song (2011), Pastiche (2007), Now You See It (1990) and Heavenly Bodies (1986).

Maxime Cervulle is Lecturer of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Paris 8 and at the Centre d'?tudes sur les m?dias, les technologies et l'internationalisation (CEMTI). He is the author of Dans le blanc des yeux: Diversit?, racisme et m?dias (2013) and the co-author of Cultural Studies: Th?ories et m?thodes (2015) and Homo exoticus: Race, classe et critique queer (2010).