Автор: Dyer Richard Dyer

When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel’s The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prev …

Fellini’s La dolce vita has been a phenomenon since before it was made, a scandal in the making and on release in 1960 and a reference point ever since. Much of what made it notorious was its incorpo …

Fellini’s La dolce vita has been a phenomenon since before it was made, a scandal in the making and on release in 1960 and a reference point ever since. Much of what made it notorious was its incorpo …

Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music – for The Godfather Parts I a …

Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, advertising and critical texts, Dyer analyses the historical, ideological and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand sc …

Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward’s play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train. Tho …

Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Pride, Envy, Wrath. A serial killer on a warped mission who turns his victims” ”sins” into the means of their murder. Seven (David Fincher, 1995) is one of the most a …

Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Pride, Envy, Wrath. A serial killer on a warped mission who turns his victims” ”sins” into the means of their murder. Seven (David Fincher, 1995) is one of the most a …

Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, advertising and critical texts, Dyer analyses the historical, ideological and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand sc …

Serial killing is an extremely rare phenomenon in reality that is none-theless remarkably widespread in the cultural imagination. Moreover, despite its rarity, it is also taken to be an expression of …