Richard Dyer

So how has it been interpreted by queer audiences?

There is a really interesting introduction to the film by Richard Dyer.

It's a 20 minute video that you can find on YouTube where he talks about this.

He's a very famous queer theorist.

mean and snide about this lower class character.

So really all of the hostility and meanness is embodied in these queer characters.

And I think that's probably one of the reasons that Richard Dyer was so horrified

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Mm-hmm.

And I'm conscious of one of the, the first scholars who made me think of whiteness as whiteness was Richard Dyer, his book-

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... seems to be drawing upon decades' worth of, like, film theory and gender studies, Richard Dyer, Robin Wood, Laura Mulvey.

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Uh, [laughs] but also they've specifically cited, you know, Carol J. Clover and Willow Maclay.