Theorist: Richard Dyer

Richard Dyer is media theorist who has written extensively about the role of 'stars' within various different media industries, with his key ideas being applicable to all sectors of the media. His most prominent ideology is that a star is an image, not a real person, that is constructed and directed towards and audience using a variety of materials. Dyer also states that the star image is incoherent due to two basic paradoxes (1&2). We analysed these paradoxes and tried to apply them to artists within our media sphere today by creating a PowerPoint.