Investigating a wide range of cultural texts drawn from films, videos, novels, poetry, rap tracks, music and painting, the book explores issues of text, genre, and the use of pastiche as a resource within a work "A significant corrective to our understanding of this new ubiquitous term... a major contribution to the understanding of this much-mentioned, but little-theorized mode." --The Times Literary Supplement "In this study, Richard Dyer turns the tables on dismissive critics, identifying their condemnations as part of a long-standing tradition of patriarchal discomfort with intimacy and affect." --Cineaste Magazine