Richard Dyer

Within todays lesson we analysed the theorist Richard Dyer and what theories he had. We all came up with a variety of different types of media platforms which are Film, TV, Music, Newspaper, YouTube/Online and Magazines.
There are a range of famous figures related with these types of media platforms.

FILM- Leonardo Dicaprio
TV- Simon Cowell
MUSIC- Ariana Grande
NEWSPAPER- Rupert Murdoch
YOUTUBE- Zoella


Music: Stars (1979) was Dyers first book. This suggested that he developed the idea that the viewers' perception of a film is heavily influenced by the perception of its stars and publicity material and reviews determine the way audiences experience the film.
He suggested that there is a difference between the phrases pop "performer" and "star". Dyer says that "pop performer" is anyone who delivers a song and sings/performs it to an audience where as a "pop star" is a well known artist who is especially known within the industry, just for being them or due to something significant labelling them as that specific artist.
Richard Dyer states that to be a "pop star" they need to have staying power to remain in the industry long enough to be remembered as well as this they need to have a different character and personality to others within the industry to be recognised as an independent artist.