Review
Written with clarity and elegance impressively and eclectically sourced with notes and bibliographies, and lavishly illustrated on exceptional stock with scores fo black-and-white plates and 18 color plates of paintings... White is a feast for both the mind and the eye. An excellent companion to bell hooks's... and an indispensable addition to undergraduate and graduate collections in cultural studies and film.
–Choice, April 1998 Vol. 35 No. 8White comes highly recommended as a textual site which attempts to bring greater humanity to the worls through an act of critical scholarship and honest self-deconstruction.
–Tribune, 2/99White [is a] terrifically intelligent examination of how the visual media, from painting to photography to film, represents whiteness as the esthetic ideal of the West.
–The New York Times, 3/99Politically sensitive and culturally savvy. [A]n excellent study..
–Shannon Steen, Theatre JournalThis book overflows with... perceptive and provocative arguments.
–In These Times
About the Author
Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of many books, including Now You See It (1990), Only Entertainment (1992) and The Matter of Images (1993), all available from Routledge.
