David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset...

Now You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, h...

For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. Her...

Only Entertainment explores entertainment as entertainment, asking how and whether an emphasis on...

Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances o...

Writing with his customary wit and style, Richard Dyer argues that while pastiche can be used to ...

Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in an...

Presents the life stories of the victims of the Spanish Inquisition that represent political or s...

Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction...

Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this ...

Here are brief biographies of 176 people who won leading roles plus more dramatic reports on 33 o...

Features Thomas Ince, William S. Hart, D.W. Griffith, and Erich von Stroheim.