He was appointed Professor of Film Studies at King’s in 2006, and has held Visiting Professorships at Weimar, Stockholm and St Andrews amongst others. His book Stars, first published in 1979, played a crucial role in establishing the academic discipline of Star Studies, and among his subsequent works are several landmarks in their fields – in particular Now You See It: Historical Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film (1990) and White: Essays on Race and Culture (1997). Richard Dyer studied languages and Philosophy at St Andrews University, before gaining his PhD at the University of Birmingham in the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. The three-day conference includes a special screening of Professor Dyer’s ‘Desert Island Movie’, Kamal Amrohi’s timeless Pakeezah, and concludes with his keynote paper on The Persistence of Textual Analysis. Such processes of formation and deformation characterise all cultural production, but they carry a special charge for lesbians and gay men seeking both to break free from and be heard in the languages of a homophobic society.Lifetime Achievement Award for Richard DyerĬongratulations to Professor Richard Dyer, who has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 British Academy of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Conference.

These films were formed from the filmic and subcultural images, assumptions and styles available to lesbians and gay men which both made the films possible and delimited the forms they could take and what they could say. Now You See It is also a case study in the dynamics of lesbian/gay cultural production.

Each film is examined in detail in relation to both film type and tradition and the sexual subculture in which it was made. Now You See It examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D'Amour and Word Is Out, in their lesbian/gay context as well as bringing to light many other forgotten but remarkable films. Now You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction by Juliane Pidduck outlining developments in lesbian and gay cinema since 1990.

Now You See It by Richard Dyer