{"title":"Wheeler Winston Dixon","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"films-of-jean-luc-godard-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791432860","title":"The Films of Jean-Luc Godard","description":"A generously illustrated overview of, and introduction to, the entirety of Godard's work as a filmmaker and video artist.  One of the most important, controversial, and prolific filmmakers in film history, and a founder of French New Wave cinema, Jean-Luc Godard has maintained an unbroken string of films in various genres and mediums from the late 1950s onward. Godard has established a reputation as a rebel who can work within and outside the system, producing films that are creative, breathtakingly beautiful, and yet commercial enough to earn back their production costs. In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as a filmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic work in Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marred much of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book that covers the entirety of Godard's career, from his early film criticism for Cahiers du Cinema to his most recent video\/film work. Illustrated with forty-six rare stills and researched in detail, it is the Godard book for the 1990s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49590315876625,"sku":"GOR013627078","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49666641592593,"sku":"GOR003875208","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50292097057041,"sku":"CIN0791432866A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50313329508625,"sku":"CIN0791432866VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51875886039313,"sku":"CIN0791432866G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52664095506705,"sku":"NLS9780791432860","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53507951100177,"sku":"GOR014951529","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791432866.jpg?v=1751137818"},{"product_id":"re-viewing-british-cinema-1900-1992-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791418628","title":"Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900-1992","description":"Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900–1992 is a collection of essays on British cinema history and practice. It offers both the casual reader and the film scholar a different view of British filmmaking during the past century. Arranged in chronological order, the book explores those areas of British cinema that have not been fully examined in other works and also offers fresh interpretations of a number of classic films. From the work of Frederic Villiers, the pioneering British newsreel cameraman who at the turn of the century brought home images of battlefield carnage, to essays on the British \"B\" film and the long-forgotten \"Independent Frame\" method of film production, to new readings of classics such as The Red Shoes, Passport to Pimlico, and Peeping Tom, the authors offer a look behind the scenes of the British film industry and engage the reader in some of the most compelling interpretational and historical issues of recent film history and critical theory.  In addition, the volume contains a number of interviews with such key directors as Stephen Frears, Terence Davies, Wendy Toye, and Lindsay Anderson and also pays particular attention to the work of early twentieth-century British feminist filmmakers whose films have often been ignored by conventional film theory and history. It also offers new material on the British \"film noir,\" the English horror film, and the pioneering gay director Brian Desmond Hurst. Taken as a whole, this book presents an entirely new series of viewpoints on British film practice, theory, and reception and affords a fresh and vibrant view of the British film medium.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49607591919889,"sku":"GOR009699095","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49629483991313,"sku":"GOR002452699","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50892972097809,"sku":"GOR014108813","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52663029760273,"sku":"NLS9780791418628","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53587548799249,"sku":"NIN9780791418628","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791418626.jpg?v=1751444906"},{"product_id":"visions-of-the-apocalypse-spectacles-of-destruction-in-american-cinema-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9781903364741","title":"Visions of the Apocalypse  Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema","description":"\u003ci\u003eVisions of the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and\/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as \u003ci\u003eSaving Private Ryan, Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, Invasion U.S.A., The Last War, Tidal Wave, The Bed Sitting Room, The Last Days of Man on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous others. It also considers the ways in which contemporary cinema has become increasingly hyper-conglomerised, leading to films with ever-higher budgets and fewer creative risks. Along the way, the author discusses such topics as the death of film itself, to be replaced by digital video; the political and social tensions that have made these visions of infinite destruction so appealing to the public; and the new wave of Hollywood war films, coupled with escapist comedies, in the post-9\/11 era. Encompassing both questions of physical and filmic mortality \u003ci\u003eVisions of the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on the questions of time, memory and the cinema's seemingly unending appetite for spectacles of destruction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49619065995537,"sku":"GOR007403404","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49620889403665,"sku":"GOR005401460","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49633223442705,"sku":"GOR012681698","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50829000769809,"sku":"CIN1903364744VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1903364744.jpg?v=1751092374"},{"product_id":"exploding-eye-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791435663","title":"The Exploding Eye","description":"The Exploding Eye explores the work of lesser-known American experimental filmmakers whose work has been excluded from the dominant film canon. Although the works of such artists as Michael Snow, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, and Maya Deren are well-known to the contemporary scholar of independent cinema, there is an entire body of work created in the American experimental cinema that has been overlooked, work of considerable beauty and influence that was enthusiastically received when first released and that is still available for viewing today, awaiting long-overdue rediscovery.  Featuring more than seventy rare stills and complete information on the films and filmmakers covered, The Exploding Eye offers a fresh vision of American experimental film for critics, scholars, and the general reader.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49622282076433,"sku":"GOR010156488","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52154795491601,"sku":"NLS9780791435663","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791435660.jpg?v=1750913745"},{"product_id":"history-of-horror-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780813547961","title":"A History of Horror","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eEver 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 \u003ci\u003eA History of Horror\u003c\/i\u003e is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. \u003ci\u003eA History of Horror\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. \u003ci\u003eA History of Horror\u003c\/i\u003e, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over fifty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49726213030161,"sku":"CIN0813547962G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813547962.jpg?v=1750882705"},{"product_id":"short-history-of-film-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780813542706","title":"A Short History of Film","description":"Gives an overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s onwards. This work brings readers face to face with many of the key players and films that have marked the industry. Compact and easily readable, it is a one-stop source for the history of world film available to students, teachers, and general audiences alike.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49728315687185,"sku":"CIN0813542707G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50174995169553,"sku":"CIN0813542707VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813542707.jpg?v=1750947146"},{"product_id":"lost-in-the-fifties-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780809326549","title":"Lost in the Fifties","description":"Exposes the seedier side of American life in films of the 1950s. \"\"Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood\"\" reveals two 1950s: an era glorified in Hollywood movies and a darker reality reflected in the esoteric films of the decade. Renowned film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon turns to the margins - the television shows and films of a hidden Hollywood - to offer an authentic view of the 1950s that counters the Tinseltown version. Dixon examines the lost films and directors of the decade. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, Dixon's 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues of rape, prostitution, and gangs. Television shows such as \"\"Captain Midnight\"\" and \"\"Ramar of the Jungle\"\" are juxtaposed with the cheerful world of \"\"I Love Lucy\"\" and \"\"Howdy Doody\"\". Highlighting directors including Herbert L Strock, Leslie Martinson, Arnold Laven, and Charles Haas, Dixon provides new insights on the television series \"\"Racquet Squad\"\", \"\"Topper\"\", and \"\"The Rifleman\"\" and the teen films \"\"I Was a Teenage Werewolf\"\" and \"\"High School Confidential\"\". Lost in the Fifties includes twenty-five photos - many previously unpublished - and draws on rare interviews with key directors, actors, and producers. The volume provides the first detailed profile of the most prolific producer in Hollywood history, Sam Katzman, and his pop culture classics \"\"Rock Around the Clock and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers\"\". Dixon profiles, for the first time, B-movie phenomenon Fred F Sears, who directed more than fifty touchstone films of a generation, including the noir thriller \"\"Chicago Syndicate\"\", the criminal career story \"\"Cell 2455 Death Row\"\", and the 3-D color western \"\"The Nebraskan\"\". Also profiled is Ida Lupino, the only woman to direct in Hollywood in the 1950s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49754801373457,"sku":"NGR9780809326549","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080932654X.jpg?v=1753005252"},{"product_id":"early-film-criticism-of-francois-truffaut-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780253207715","title":"Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut","description":"Before turning to filmmaking, Francois Truffaut was a film critic writing for Cahiers du Cinema during the 1950s. The Early film Criticism of Francois Truffaut makes available, for the first time in English, articles that originally appeared in French journals such as Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. Truffaut discusses films by such acknowledged masters as Hitchcock, Huston, Dymytryk, and Lang, but also examines the work of such lesser-known directors as Robert Wise, Don Weis, and Roger Vadim.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49760692470033,"sku":"GOR005581739","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49764623417617,"sku":"GOR002696270","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347354194193,"sku":"CIN0253207711G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253207711.jpg?v=1752315127"},{"product_id":"film-genre-2000-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791445143","title":"Film Genre 2000","description":"New essays by prominent film scholars address recent developments in American genre filmmaking.  Covering over 100 feature films in critical depth and detail, this reader provides an excellent introduction to American genre filmmaking since 1990. These previously unpublished essays by prominent film scholars each address a different film genre-from science fiction to romance to '90s noir-as well as the ways in which genre filmmaking as a whole has been changed by the new technologies and market forces that are shaping the future of cinema.  One of the peculiar aspects of recent American genre filmmaking is its apparent facelessness, its desire to subsume itself into the larger framework of genre cinema, and not to identify each film as a unique exemplar. What this book argues, among other things, is that the implicit message in contemporary genre films is rarely that which is signified by a film's external or even internal narrative structure. What drives the thematic and structural concerns of recent genre cinema is the recovery of initial investment, made all the more pressing by the fact that each film released theatrically now represents an investment of many millions of dollars.  For better or worse, American genre cinema dominates the globe. The Hollywood genre film has become one of America's most prolific and profitable social exports. These contemporary genre films all seek to further the values of their nation of origin as they journey through the world on film, videotape, DVDs, and television; it is the pervasive influence, and numerous subjects, of these films that are analyzed here.  Contributors include Heather Addison, Chuck Berg, Ton Conley, David M. Desser, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Marc Miller, Catherine Preston, Stephen Prince, David Sanjek, Mark A. Reid, John Tibbets, Jim Welsh, and Ron Wilson.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49896322859281,"sku":"CIN0791445143G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52676734714129,"sku":"NLS9780791445143","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740047667473,"sku":"NIN9780791445143","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791445143.jpg?v=1751169572"},{"product_id":"short-history-of-film-third-edition-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780813595122","title":"A Short History of Film, Third Edition","description":"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 discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940834124049,"sku":"CIN0813595126G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51553600504081,"sku":"CIN0813595126VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813595126.jpg?v=1761387628"},{"product_id":"re-viewing-british-cinema-1900-1992-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791418611","title":"Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900-1992","description":"Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900–1992  is a collection of essays on British cinema history and practice. It offers both the casual reader and the film scholar a different view of British filmmaking during the past century. Arranged in chronological order, the book explores those areas of British cinema that have not been fully examined in other works and also offers fresh interpretations of a number of classic films. From the work of Frederic Villiers, the pioneering British newsreel cameraman who at the turn of the century brought home images of battlefield carnage, to essays on the British \"B\" film and the long-forgotten \"Independent Frame\" method of film production, to new readings of classics such as The Red Shoes, Passport to Pimlico, and Peeping Tom, the authors offer a look behind the scenes of the British film industry and engage the reader in some of the most compelling interpretational and historical issues of recent film history and critical theory.  In addition, the volume contains a number of interviews with such key directors as Stephen Frears, Terence Davies, Wendy Toye, and Lindsay Anderson and also pays particular attention to the work of early twentieth-century British feminist filmmakers  whose films have often been ignored by conventional film theory and history. It also offers new material on the British \"film noir,\" the English horror film, and the pioneering gay director Brian Desmond Hurst. Taken as a whole, this book presents an entirely new series of viewpoints on British film practice, theory, and reception and affords a fresh and vibrant view of the British film medium.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50006135603473,"sku":"GOR013834980","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52429472989457,"sku":"NLS9780791418611","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791418618.jpg?v=1751424627"},{"product_id":"black-and-white-cinema-book-wheeler-dixon-9780813572413","title":"Black and White Cinema","description":"Black and White Cinema is the first study to consider the use of black-and-white as an art form in its own right, providing a comprehensive and global overview of the era when it flourished, from the 1900s to the 1960s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50135013785873,"sku":"CIN081357241XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50994191466769,"sku":"CIN081357241XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/081357241X.jpg?v=1761386713"},{"product_id":"short-history-of-film-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780813560557","title":"A Short History of Film","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Short History of Film\u003c\/i\u003e, Second Edition, provides a concise and accurate overview of the history of world cinema, detailing the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from 1896 through 2012. Accompanied by more than 250 rare color and black-and-white stills--including many from recent films--the new edition is unmatched in its panoramic view, conveying a sense of cinema's sweep in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as it is practiced in the United States and around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster present new and amended coverage of the industry in addition to updating the birth and death dates and final works of notable directors. Their expanded focus on key films brings the book firmly into the digital era and chronicles the death of film as a production medium. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book takes readers through the invention of the kinetoscope, the introduction of sound and color between the two world wars, and ultimately the computer-generated imagery of the present day. It details significant periods in world cinema, including the early major industries in Europe, the dominance of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, and the French New Wave of the 1960s. Attention is given to small independent efforts in developing nations and the more personal independent film movement that briefly flourished in the United States, the significant filmmakers of all nations, and the effects of censorship and regulation on production everywhere. In addition, the authors incorporate the stories of women and other minority filmmakers who have often been overlooked in other texts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngaging and accessible, this is the best one-stop source for the history of world film available for students, teachers, and general audiences alike.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50207799968017,"sku":"CIN0813560551G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367206261009,"sku":"CIN0813560551A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53251070001425,"sku":"GOR009383498","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53399924179217,"sku":"CIN0813560551VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813560551.jpg?v=1750703315"},{"product_id":"streaming-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780813142197","title":"Streaming","description":"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. Gone are the days when films could only be seen in theaters or rented at video stores: movies are now accessible at the click of a button, and there are no reels, tapes, or discs to store. Any film or show worth keeping may be collected in the virtual cloud and accessed at will through services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Instant.  The movies have changed, and we are changing with them. The ways we communicate, receive information, travel, and socialize have all been revolutionized. In  Streaming, Wheeler Winston Dixon reveals the positive and negative consequences of the transition to digital formatting and distribution, exploring the ways in which digital cinema has altered contemporary filmmaking and our culture. Many industry professionals and audience members feel that the new format fundamentally alters the art, while others laud the liberation of the moving image from the \"imperfect\" medium of film, asserting that it is both inevitable and desirable. Dixon argues that the change is neither good nor bad; it's simply a fact.  Hollywood has embraced digital production and distribution because it is easier, faster, and cheaper, but the displacement of older technology will not come without controversy. This groundbreaking book illuminates the challenges of preserving media in the digital age and explores what stands to be lost, from the rich hues of traditional film stocks to the classic movies that are not profitable enough to offer in streaming formats. Dixon also investigates the financial challenges of the new distribution model, the incorporation of new content such as webisodes, and the issue of ownership in an age when companies have the power to pull purchased items from consumer devices at their own discretion. Streaming touches on every aspect of the shift to digital production and distribution. It explains not only how the new technology is affecting movies, music, books, and games, but also how instant access is permanently changing the habits of viewers and influencing our culture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50250341712145,"sku":"GOR012012337","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51568880222481,"sku":"GOR014332392","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813142199.jpg?v=1751395776"},{"product_id":"american-cinema-of-the-1940s-book-wheeler-dixon-9780813537009","title":"American Cinema of the 1940s","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. Shaking off the grim legacy of the Depression, Hollywood launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including \u003ci\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow Green Was My Valley.\u003c\/i\u003e In 1942, Hollywood joined the national war effort with a vengeance, creating a series of patriotic and escapist films, such as \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Mrs. Miniver, The Road to Morocco,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYankee Doodle Dandy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With the end of the war, returning GIs faced a new America, in which the country had been transformed overnight. Film noir reflected a new public mood of pessimism and paranoia, in such classic films of betrayal and conflict as \u003ci\u003eKiss of Death, Force of Evil, Caught\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eApology for Murder\u003c\/i\u003e, depicting a poisonous universe of femme fatales, crooked lawyers, and corrupt politicians.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With the threat of the atom bomb lurking in the background and the beginnings of the Hollywood Blacklist, the 1940s was a decade of crisis and change. Featuring essays by a group of respected film scholars and historians, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Cinema of the 1940s\u003c\/i\u003e brings this dynamic and turbulent decade to life. Illustrated with many rare stills and filled with provocative insights, the volume will appeal to students, teachers, and to all those interested in cultural history and American film of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50363333869841,"sku":"CIN0813537002G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369086357777,"sku":"CIN0813537002A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008284197137,"sku":"NIN9780813537009","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813537002.jpg?v=1761390196"},{"product_id":"straight-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791456248","title":"Straight","description":"straight \/ 'strāt (adj.) . . . without curves . . . correct . . . honest . . . not deviating from the normal . . . conventional . . . Heterosexual  Practically all mainstream cinema is \"straight,\" and has been since its inception. In Straight, Wheeler Winston Dixon explores how heterosexual performativity has been constructed in film, from early cinema to the present day. In addition to discussing how cinematic visions of masculine and feminine desire have been commodified and sold to reinforce existing societal constructs, Dixon also documents the recent emergence of \"hypermasculinity,\" a kinetic and exaggerated masculinity that has been created to counter the more gentle, thoughtful male portrayed in While You Were Sleeping, Sleepless in Seattle, and other films that seemingly threaten the established order of patriarchal cinematic discourse.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50366531698961,"sku":"CIN0791456242G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52679171899665,"sku":"NLS9780791456248","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0791456242.jpg?v=1751076109"},{"product_id":"films-of-terence-fisher-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9781911325338","title":"The Films of Terence Fisher","description":"Tracing the entire career of the British director Terence Fisher, best known for his Gothic horror films for Hammer—such as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958)—The Films of Terence Fisher covers not only his horror films, but also his film noirs, comedies, and early apprenticeship work to create a full picture of Fisher's life and work.  Brimming with rare stills, interviews, and detailed analysis of Fisher's films—both for Hammer as well as his earlier work—this is the ultimate \"one-stop\" book on Terence Fisher, both in his horror films, and his entire body of work, as well as his legacy to the British cinema.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50530976825617,"sku":"GOR010701240","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53647483601169,"sku":"NIN9781911325338","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1911325337.jpg?v=1750867368"},{"product_id":"films-of-reginald-leborg-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780810825505","title":"The Films of Reginald Leborg","description":"This is the first in-depth look at Reginald LeBorg, the quintessential Hollywood contract director, who worked constantly during the 1940s and 50s at such studios as Universal, PRC, and Monogram, making a series of beautiful and resonant films under severe constraints of time and budget. Here, in a book-length interview recorded a year before his death in 1989, LeBorg looks back at all his work—Destiny, Calling Doctor Death, Weird Woman, The Flight That Disappeared, Jungle Woman, Diary of A Madman, San Diego I Love You, and many others, and discusses his impatience with \"fans\" who don't bother to screen his more interesting non-Gothic films, describes studio life during the 1940s, and gives the reader insights into his personal life.  With stills and a thorough filmography.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50697280782609,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697284288785,"sku":"NGR9780810825505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0810825503.jpg?v=1750703249"},{"product_id":"dark-humor-in-films-of-the-1960s-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9781137564207","title":"Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s","description":"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 work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51019965530385,"sku":"NIN9781137564207","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52128145703185,"sku":"NLS9781137564207","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1137564202.jpg?v=1751302418"},{"product_id":"history-of-horror-2nd-edition-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9781978833586","title":"A History of Horror, 2nd Edition","description":"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 updated A History of Horror is still the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre.  Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. In covering the last decade, this new edition includes coverage of the resurgence of the genre, covering the swath of new groundbreaking horror films directed by women, Black and queer horror films, and a new international wave in body horror films.  A History of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system, how the distribution and exhibition of horror films have changed in a post-COVID world, and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time.  Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. A History of Horror, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over sixty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51114988863761,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51114988896529,"sku":"NGR9781978833586","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/197883358X.jpg?v=1761389907"},{"product_id":"short-history-of-film-fourth-edition-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9781978837676","title":"A Short History of Film, Fourth Edition","description":"This updated and expanded edition of A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. Succinct yet comprehensive, with more than 250 rare stills and illustrations, it brings readers face to face with many of the key players and films that have shaped the industry.   Beginning with the precursors of moving pictures, Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster lead a fast-paced tour through the invention of the kinetoscope, the introduction of sound and color between the two world wars, and ultimately the computer-generated imagery of the present day. They detail significant periods in world cinema, including the creation of early major industries in Europe, the dominance of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, and the French New Wave of the 1960s. They also highlight independent efforts in developing nations and the corresponding more personal independent film movement that briefly flourished in the United States. Along the way, the authors incorporate the stories of women and other minority filmmakers who have often been overlooked in other texts.   Compact and easily readable, this is a vital history of international cinema is a one-stop resource for students, teachers, and general readers alike.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51535482880273,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51535483044113,"sku":"NGR9781978837676","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1978837674.jpg?v=1756707643"},{"product_id":"short-history-of-film-fourth-edition-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9781978837669","title":"A Short History of Film, Fourth Edition","description":"This updated and expanded edition of A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. Succinct yet comprehensive, with more than 250 rare stills and illustrations, it brings readers face to face with many of the key players and films that have shaped the industry.   Beginning with the precursors of moving pictures, Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster lead a fast-paced tour through the invention of the kinetoscope, the introduction of sound and color between the two world wars, and ultimately the computer-generated imagery of the present day. They detail significant periods in world cinema, including the creation of early major industries in Europe, the dominance of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, and the French New Wave of the 1960s. They also highlight independent efforts in developing nations and the corresponding more personal independent film movement that briefly flourished in the United States. Along the way, the authors incorporate the stories of women and other minority filmmakers who have often been overlooked in other texts.   Compact and easily readable, this is a vital history of international cinema is a one-stop resource for students, teachers, and general readers alike.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51535485600017,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51535485796625,"sku":"NGR9781978837669","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52494950138129,"sku":"NIN9781978837669","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52816097870097,"sku":"CIN1978837666VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1978837666.jpg?v=1754894030"},{"product_id":"film-and-television-after-9-11-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780809325566","title":"Film and Television After 9\/11","description":"Twelve distinguished scholars and critics discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how movies have changed to reflect the new world climate.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52091695235345,"sku":"CIN080932556XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780809325566.jpg?v=1756935394"},{"product_id":"hollywood-in-crisis-or-the-collapse-of-the-real-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9783319821146","title":"Hollywood in Crisis or: The Collapse of the Real","description":"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. Wheeler Winston Dixon examines key works in cinema from the era of late-stage capitalists, analyzing Hollywood films and the current wave of cinema developed outside of the Hollywood system alike. Dixon illustrates how movies and television programs across these spaces have adopted, reflected, and generated a society in crisis, and with it, a crisis for the cinematic industry itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52121706561809,"sku":"NLS9783319821146","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52761004704017,"sku":"NIN9783319821146","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319821146.jpg?v=1757433932"},{"product_id":"american-cinema-of-the-1940s-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9781845204341","title":"American Cinema of the 1940s","description":"The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, and How Green Was My Valley. Hollywood then joined the national war effort with a vengeance, creating a series of patriotic and escapist films, such as Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Road to Morocco, and Yankee Doodle Dandy. By the end of the war America was a country transformed. The 1940s closed with the threat of the atom bomb and the beginnings of the Hollywood blacklist. Film Noir reflected the new public mood of pessimism and paranoia. Classic films of betrayal and conflict - Kiss of Death, Force of Evil, Caught, and Apology for Murder - depicted a poisonous universe of femme fatales, crooked lawyers, and corrupt politicians.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52138533028113,"sku":"NLS9781845204341","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781845204341.jpg?v=1757563399"},{"product_id":"hollywood-in-crisis-or-the-collapse-of-the-real-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9783319404806","title":"Hollywood in Crisis or: The Collapse of the Real","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52152461394193,"sku":"NLS9783319404806","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52760976392465,"sku":"NIN9783319404806","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319404806.jpg?v=1757616710"},{"product_id":"film-genre-2000-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791445136","title":"Film Genre 2000","description":"New essays by prominent film scholars address recent developments in American genre filmmaking.  Covering over 100 feature films in critical depth and detail, this reader provides an excellent introduction to American genre filmmaking since 1990. These previously unpublished essays by prominent film scholars each address a different film genre-from science fiction to romance to '90s noir-as well as the ways in which genre filmmaking as a whole has been changed by the new technologies and market forces that are shaping the future of cinema.  One of the peculiar aspects of recent American genre filmmaking is its apparent facelessness, its desire to subsume itself into the larger framework of genre cinema, and not to identify each film as a unique exemplar. What this book argues, among other things, is that the implicit message in contemporary genre films is rarely that which is signified by a film's external or even internal narrative structure. What drives the thematic and structural concerns of recent genre cinema is the recovery of initial investment, made all the more pressing by the fact that each film released theatrically now represents an investment of many millions of dollars.  For better or worse, American genre cinema dominates the globe. The Hollywood genre film has become one of America's most prolific and profitable social exports. These contemporary genre films all seek to further the values of their nation of origin as they journey through the world on film, videotape, DVDs, and television; it is the pervasive influence, and numerous subjects, of these films that are analyzed here.  Contributors include Heather Addison, Chuck Berg, Ton Conley, David M. Desser, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Marc Miller, Catherine Preston, Stephen Prince, David Sanjek, Mark A. Reid, John Tibbets, Jim Welsh, and Ron Wilson.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52427958518033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52427958976785,"sku":"NLS9780791445136","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791445136.jpg?v=1759162637"},{"product_id":"disaster-and-memory-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780231113175","title":"Disaster and Memory","description":"Using the media's coverage of the death of Princess Diana as a departing point, Wheeler Dixon presents a sharply critical assessment of the current state of movies--from the cult of celebrity, to the nature of public surveillance, to the role of print and television media in shaping our shared consciousness--unveiling our fascination with disaster.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52438034809105,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52438035038481,"sku":"CIN023111317XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780231113175.jpg?v=1759244500"},{"product_id":"films-of-freddie-francis-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780810823587","title":"The Films of Freddie Francis","description":"To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52451858383121,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52451858776337,"sku":"NLS9780810823587","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780810823587.jpg?v=1759362802"},{"product_id":"brief-history-of-comic-book-movies-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9783319471839","title":"A Brief History of Comic Book Movies","description":"A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454071664913,"sku":"NLS9783319471839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52761255444753,"sku":"NIN9783319471839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319471839.jpg?v=1759370005"},{"product_id":"second-century-of-cinema-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791445167","title":"The Second Century of Cinema","description":"Contemplates the future of cinema in light of emerging digital technologies and new systems of distribution.  In a unique and perceptive look at the future of cinema, Wheeler Winston Dixon explores the possible effects of the digital age on the production and exhibition of films. Although Hollywood will seek to retain its dominance over the global presentation of entertainment, Dixon argues, a new vision of international access-a democracy of images-will finally inform the future structure of cinema in the twenty-first century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52480824344849,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52480825229585,"sku":"NLS9780791445167","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791445167.jpg?v=1759850809"},{"product_id":"brief-history-of-comic-book-movies-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9783319836720","title":"A Brief History of Comic Book Movies","description":"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 Batman and Superman serials were made. The serials, and later television shows in the 1950s and 60s, were for the most part designed for children. But today, with the continuing rise of Comic-Con, they seem to be more a part of the mainstream than ever, appealing to adults as well as younger fans. This book examines comic book movies from the past and present, exploring how these films shaped American culture from the post-World War II era to the present day, and how they adapted to the changing tastes and mores of succeeding generations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52481811677457,"sku":"NLS9783319836720","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52761260818705,"sku":"NIN9783319836720","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319836720.jpg?v=1759852274"},{"product_id":"i-went-that-a-way-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780810823402","title":"I Went That-a-Way","description":"Harry Fraser was a tried and true professional director who could be counted upon to bring a picture in on time and on budget. In fifty years in film and theatre, he worked with many important figures in motion picture history, particularly in westerns: Wild Bill Cody, Tom Tyler, Bob Steele, Gene Autry, Rex Bell, Tom Mix, Harry Carey, Buster Crabbe, Lash La Rue, William S. Hart, John Wayne, Yakima Canutt, and many others.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52599069868305,"sku":"NLS9780810823402","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780810823402.jpg?v=1761077421"},{"product_id":"synthetic-cinema-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9783030125707","title":"Synthetic Cinema","description":"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 have fundamentally abandoned traditional filmmaking values through the overwhelming use of computer generated imagery, digital touch ups for the actors, and extensive use of green screen technology that replace sets and location shooting.    Combined with the shift to digital cinematography, as well as the rise of comic book and franchise cinema, the temptation to augment movies with lavish, computer generated spectacle has proven irresistible to both directors and audiences, to the point that, Dixon argues, 21st-century commercial cinema is so far removed from the real world that it has created a new era of flawless, fake movies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52658816745745,"sku":"NLS9783030125707","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53037291929873,"sku":"NIN9783030125707","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030125707.jpg?v=1762261549"},{"product_id":"short-history-of-film-third-edition-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780813595139","title":"A Short History of Film, Third Edition","description":"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 discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52825999474961,"sku":"NGR9780813595139","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780813595139.jpg?v=1764547449"},{"product_id":"black-white-cinema-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9781784534523","title":"Black \u0026 White Cinema","description":"Telling for the first time, the short story of the cinema of shadows and light.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53131161436433,"sku":"GOR007265624","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781784534523.jpg?v=1771257220"},{"product_id":"exploding-eye-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791435656","title":"The Exploding Eye","description":"Explores the work of lesser-known American experimental filmmakers whose films, though well-received and influential, have been excluded from the dominant film canon.  The Exploding Eye explores the work of lesser-known American experimental filmmakers whose work has been excluded from the dominant film canon. Although the works of such artists as Michael Snow, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, and Maya Deren are well-known to the contemporary scholar of independent cinema, there is an entire body of work created in the American experimental cinema that has been overlooked, work of considerable beauty and influence that was enthusiastically received when first released and that is still available for viewing today, awaiting long-overdue rediscovery.  Featuring more than seventy rare stills and complete information on the films and filmmakers covered, The Exploding Eye offers a fresh vision of American experimental film for critics, scholars, and the general reader.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53213246521617,"sku":"NLS9780791435656","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791435656.jpg?v=1772753862"},{"product_id":"films-of-jean-luc-godard-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791432853","title":"The Films of Jean-Luc Godard","description":"A generously illustrated overview of, and introduction to, the entirety of Godard's work as a filmmaker and video artist.  One of the most important, controversial, and prolific filmmakers in film history, and a founder of French New Wave cinema, Jean-Luc Godard has maintained an unbroken string of films in various genres and mediums from the late 1950s onward. Godard has established a reputation as a rebel who can work within and outside the system, producing films that are creative, breathtakingly beautiful, and yet commercial enough to earn back their production costs. In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as a filmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic work in Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marred much of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book that covers the entirety of Godard's career, from his early film criticism for Cahiers du Cinema to his most recent video\/film work. Illustrated with forty-six rare stills and researched in detail, it is the Godard book for the 1990s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53213249536273,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53213249962257,"sku":"NLS9780791432853","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791432853.jpg?v=1772753873"},{"product_id":"transparency-of-spectacle-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791437827","title":"The Transparency of Spectacle","description":"Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.  While agreeing that the \"digitization\" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital \"polishing\" and \"tweaking\" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and\/or person originally photographed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53213266346257,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53213267099921,"sku":"NLS9780791437827","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791437827.jpg?v=1772753991"},{"product_id":"transparency-of-spectacle-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791437810","title":"The Transparency of Spectacle","description":"Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.  While agreeing that the \"digitization\" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital \"polishing\" and \"tweaking\" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and\/or person originally photographed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53213266968849,"sku":"NLS9780791437810","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791437810.jpg?v=1772753991"},{"product_id":"it-looks-at-you-book-wheeler-winston-dixon-9780791423400","title":"It Looks At You","description":"This book is a study of one of the most insidious and pervasive phenomena in the study and reception of cinema: the returned gaze from the screen, in which the audience is actually surveilled by the film being projected on the screen. Rather than the usual process of watching a film, in those films which return the gaze of the viewer, the film looks at us, confronting our voyeur's embrace of the spectacle it presents. The book cites examples as diverse as Andy Warhol's Vinyl, Laurel and Hardy two-reel comedies, the films of Jean-Marie Straub, Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, and Wesley E. Barry's Creation of the Humanoids. It also discusses the history of the returned gaze in video, pornography, surveillance systems, and the related plastic arts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53213289971985,"sku":"NLS9780791423400","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53509906759953,"sku":"CIN0791423409G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791423400.jpg?v=1772754112"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/author-books-by-wheeler-winston-dixon.oembed?page=3","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}