White - 9781138683037

Taylor & Francis

WhiteTwentieth Anniversary Edition\nAuthor(s): Richard Dyer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138683037, 978-1138683037\nSynopsis\nNow twenty years since its initial release, Richard Dyers classic text White remains a groundbreaking and insightful study of the representation of whiteness in Western visual culture.\n\nWhite 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. \n\nDyer 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.