{"product_id":"white-9781138683044","title":"White","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow twenty years since its initial release, Richard Dyer's classic text \u003ci\u003eWhite \u003c\/i\u003eremains a groundbreaking and insightful study of the representation of whiteness in Western visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDyer 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 \u003ci\u003eTarzan \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHercules \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eConan \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRambo\u003c\/i\u003e; analyses the stifling rol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of plates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking into the light: Whiteness, racism and regimes of representation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaxime Cervulle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The matter of whiteness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Coloured white, not coloured\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The light of the world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The white man’s muscles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 ‘There’s nothing I can do! Nothing!’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 White death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliographies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019517198679,"sku":"9781138683044","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138683044.jpg?v=1750780505","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/white-9781138683044","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}