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Richard Dyer is Art Editor of Wasafiri, an editor at Third Text and a Corresponding Editor on Ambit. He is a widely published art critic, reviewer, poet, fiction writer and also an artist. His crit...

(1999). Interview: Jackie Kay in conversation to Maya Jaggi and Richard Dyer. Wasafiri: Vol. 14, No. 29, pp. 53-61.

Lena Horne was the first African-American woman to be signed to a contract to a major Hollywood studio, who did however not know what to do with her. Her >colour< – in her voice as well as her looks – meant that she did not fit into the racial hierarchies of the day and she was largely confined oppressively to the margins. However, she was also able to some degree, and in collaboration with other African-American figures in Hollywood, to use this to give a glimpse of African-American modernism in Hollywood cinema. This is thus a case study of cultural production as struggle.

William L. Rivers and William T. Slater (eds.) Aspen Handbook on the Media: 1975-76 Edition (Aspen Institute Program on Communications and Society, 360 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, Calif. 94301—$6.95/3.95) Richard Dyer MacCann and Edward S. Perry's The New Film Index: A Bibliography of Magazine Articles in English, 1930-1970 (New York: Dutton, 1975—$35.00)

Dana H. Hodgdon and Stuart M. Kaminsky BASIC FILMMAKING (New York: Arco Publishing, 1982—$12.95/$7.95) Stewart Bronfeld WRITING FOR FILM AND TELEVISION (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981—$11.95) Leonard Maltin TV MOVIES (New York: New American Library, 1982— $4.95) Alan Frank THE HORROR FILM HANDBOOK (Totowa, NJ: Barnes E. Noble Books, 1982—$24.95) Richard Dyer MacCann and Jack C. Ellis CINEMA EXAMINED: SELECTIONS FROM CINEMA JOURNAL (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982—$9.95 paper)