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Now 20 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 organization 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 analyzing 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, discusses heroic white masculinity in muscle-man action cinema, from Tarzan and Hercules to Conan and Rambo ; analyses the stifling role of white women in end-of-empire fictions like Jewel in the Crown and traces the associations of whiteness with death in Falling Down , horror movies and cult dystopian films such as Blade Runner and the Aliens trilogy. This twentieth anniversary edit

Who reads White: Essays on Race and Culture?

Author

Richard Dyer

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134829101

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Sociology

Rating

4.21 / 5 (223 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14