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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Looking into the light: Whiteness, racism and regimes of representation -- Introduction -- 1 The matter of whiteness -- 2 Coloured white, not coloured -- 3 The light of the world -- 4 The white man's muscles -- 5 'There's nothing I can do! Nothing!' -- 6 White death -- Notes -- Bibliographies -- Index

Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication of the first edition in 1986. Dyer's illuminating study is based around case studies of three major stars: Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland. He draws on a wide range of sources, including the films in which each star appeared, to illustrate how each star's persona was constructed, and goes on to examine each within the context of particular issues in fan culture and stardom

Looking into the light : whiteness, racism and regimes of representation / Maxime Cervulle -- Introduction -- The matter of whiteness -- Coloured white, not coloured -- The light of the world -- The white man's muscles -- 'There's nothing I can do! Nothing!' -- White death

Part I: Definitions. The media and society -- Minority art, folk art and popular art -- Popular art and mass culture -- Part II: Topics for study. Popular forms and popular artists -- Violence on the screen -- The avenging angels -- Falling in love -- Fantasy and romance -- Friends and neighbours -- The young audience -- The big bazaar -- Part III: Social themes. The institutions -- Mass society: critics and defenders -- The curriculum and the popular arts.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Men in Color: Introducing Race and the Subject of Masculinities -- I. READING MEN, READING RACE -- Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity -- Fiedler and Sons -- II. WHITE LIKE WHO? -- "As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment -- Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues -- Reading the Blackboard: Youth, Masculinity, and Racial Cross-Identification -- The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Popular Culture -- All the King's Men: Elvis Impersonators and White Working-Class Masculinity -- III. VISUALIZING RACE AND THE SUBJECT OF MASCULINITIES -- The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II -- "The Cool Pose": Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy -- The White Man's Muscles -- Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema -- Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van Der Zee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston -- IV. COMING AFTER -- Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinities -- Works Cited -- Index -- Contributors

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic -- Lesbians and Film -- The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film -- The Great Escape -- There's Something Queer Here -- Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead -- The Ambiguities of "Lesbian" Viewing Pleasure: The (Dis)articulations of Black Widow -- From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Modchen in Uniform -- Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine -- Dossier on Hitchcock -- Introduction -- Hitchcock's Homophobia John Hepworth (with "Letter to the Editor" by Robin WOod and "Response" -- The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock's Homophobia -- "Crisscross": Paranoia and Projection in Strangers on a Train -- "I'm not the sort of person men marry": Monsters, Queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca -- The Queer Voice in Mamie -- Flaming Closets -- Men's Pornography: Gay vs. Straight -- Freud's "Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates -- Tom of Finland: An Appreciation -- Visible Lesions: Images ofthe PWA -- Pee Wee Herman: The Homosexual Subtext -- In Living Color: Toms, Coons, Mammies, Faggots, and Bucks -- Dossier on Popular Music -- Introduction -- In Defense of Disco -- Crossover Dreams: Lesbianism and Popular Music since the 1970s -- Immaculate Connection -- The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music -- Children of Paradise: A Brief History of Queens -- The Politics of Drag -- Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen -- All Dressed Up But No Place to Go? Style Wars and the New Lesbianism -- Commodity Lesbianism -- Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Popular Culture Bibliography -- Acknowledgments of Copyright -- Contributors -- Index