Autor: Dixon Wheeler Winston Dixon

New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place …

They are shot on high-definition digital cameras with computer-generated effects added in postproduction and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed …

Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the rulers of film. Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L …

From the glossy monochrome of the classic Hollywood romance, to the gritty greyscale of the gangster picture, to film noir s moody interplay of light and shadow, black-and-white cinematography has be …

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated di …

What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino? How have contemporary Japanese horror films inspired Takashi Shimizu, director of the huge box office hit The Grudge? What is it like to b …

Depictions of sex, violence, and crime abound in many of today’s movies, sometimes making it seem that the idyllic life has vanished-even from our imaginations. But as shown in this unique book, para …

Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon’s fully revised and upd …