Richard Dyer

Richard W. Dyer (born 1945) is an english academic studying cinema.

He was an influential figure in the english Gay liberation front.


 Stars (1979) was Dyer's first full-length book.s ( stars) and that the reviews of the film and the publicity materials d determine they ay a viewer the film and so Dyer has analysed critics writing on medias such as magazines , advertising and experiences films.  

Even though dyer specialises in film he has a wider interest in culture. 

 In it he developed the idea that the viewers' perception of a film is heavily influenced by the perception of its actor.
for example Richard Dyer- Spring breakers influences its audience into going out n being rebellious and acting in a similar way to the actors in the ilm. This is due to it being perceived as fun and achievable. These two things influence an audience into inspiring from it . 

Although Dyer's academic specialism is film, he has a wider interest in culture and in the way that people are categorised. His 2001 book The Culture of Queers was a general history of the culture of gay men. He had explored aspects of this — like the origins of the application of the word 'gay' to this culture — in earlier essays. In the book he looked at the more general issue of a sexual grouping having an identifiable culture and at the relatively small set of stereotypes associated with that culture as portrayed in its arts and media. Specifically, he uses "queer culture" to indicate the values of that grouping before "gay culture" took hold, and the book explores the ways in which these two cultures differ.