Wheeler Winston Dixon, James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies and professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is coeditor in chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video and the author of numerous books, including A History of Horror, Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema, and Film Talk: Directors at Work.
17 Ebooks von Wheeler Winston Dixon
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Streaming
Film stocks are vanishing, but the iconic images of the silver screen remain—albeit in new, sleeker formats. Today, viewers can instantly stream movies on televisions, computers, and smartphones. Gon …
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€21.99
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s
Focusing on ‚dark‘ or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose wor …
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€53.49
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Synthetic Cinema
In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by ’synthetic cinema.‘ He details how movies over the last two decades hav …
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€58.84
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Hollywood in Crisis or: The Collapse of the Real
This book discusses the collapse and transformation of the Hollywood movie machine in the twenty-first century, and the concomitant social collapse being felt in nearly every aspect of society. Wheel …
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€58.84
Wheeler Winston Dixon & Richard Graham: A Brief History of Comic Book Movies
A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first Bat …
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€58.84
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Streaming
Film stocks are vanishing, but the iconic images of the silver screen remain — albeit in new, sleeker formats. Today, viewers can instantly stream movies on televisions, computers, and smartphones. …
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€278.63
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Straight
straight / ’strāt (adj.) . . . without curves . . . correct . . . honest . . . not deviating from the normal . . . conventional . . . Heterosexual Practically all mainstream cinema is ’straight, ‚ an …
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€35.99
Murray Pomerance: City That Never Sleeps
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 …
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€50.12
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Film Talk
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 …
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€48.74
Wheeler Winston Dixon & Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: 21st-Century Hollywood
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 …
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€48.25
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Visions of Paradise
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 …
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€50.11
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Death of the Moguls
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 …
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€53.85
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Black and White Cinema
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 …
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€58.97
Wheeler Winston Dixon & Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: Short History of Film, Third Edition
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 …
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€62.08
Wheeler Winston Dixon: History of Horror, 2nd Edition
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 …
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€35.51
Wheeler Winston Dixon: Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia
Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated …
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€37.23
