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Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780813553764 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 28, 2012, cover price $72.00

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9780813553771 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 28, 2012, cover price $27.95

A History of Horror

Product 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. A History of Horror, with rare stills from classic films, is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre...read more

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780813547954 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $72.00 | About this 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.

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9780813547961 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this 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.

Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia

Product Description: Wheeler Winston Dixon engages readers in an overview of noir and fatalist film from the mid-twentieth century to the present, ending with a discussion of television, the Internet, and dominant commercial cinema. Beginning with the 1940s classics, Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia moves to the "Red Scare" and other ominous expressions of the 1950s...read more

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9780813545202 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Wheeler Winston Dixon engages readers in an overview of noir and fatalist film from the mid-twentieth century to the present, ending with a discussion of television, the Internet, and dominant commercial cinema.

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9780813545219 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Wheeler Winston Dixon engages readers in an overview of noir and fatalist film from the mid-twentieth century to the present, ending with a discussion of television, the Internet, and dominant commercial cinema.

Miscellaneous:

9780748630318 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, February 1, 2009, cover price $113.99

Lost In The Fifties

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9781403967145 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 2007, cover price $26.95

Film Talk: Directors at Work

Product Description: 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 be an African American director in the twenty-first century?The answers to these questions, along with many more little-known facts and insights, can be found in Film Talk, an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at filmmaking from the 1940s to the present...read more

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9780813540771 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 15, 2007, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino?

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9780813540788 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 15, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino?

Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema

Product Description: "Visions of Paradise is a fantastic voyage into the social and cultural history of cinema, exploring the utopian imagination and questions of belief through a discussion of a fascinating array of European and Hollywood cinematic forms...read more

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780813537979 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 13, 2006, cover price $65.00

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9780813537986 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 1, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: "Visions of Paradise is a fantastic voyage into the social and cultural history of cinema, exploring the utopian imagination and questions of belief through a discussion of a fascinating array of European and Hollywood cinematic forms.

American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes And Variations

Product Description: The 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 Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, and How Green Was My Valley...read more

By Wheeler Winston Dixon (editor)

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9780813536996 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 15, 2005, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation.

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9780813537009 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 31, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation.

Lost In The Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood

Product Description: 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 marginsthe television shows and films of a hidden Hollywoodto offer an authentic view of the 1950s that counters the Tinsel-town version...read more

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9780809326532 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9780809326549 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: 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.

Film and Television After 9/11

Product Description: In Film and Television After 9/11, editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how moviemaking has changed to reflect the new world climate...read more

By Wheeler Winston Dixon (editor)

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9780809325559 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In Film and Television After 9/11, editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how moviemaking has changed to reflect the new world climate.

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9780809325566 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In Film and Television After 9/11, editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how moviemaking has changed to reflect the new world climate.

Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema

Product Description: Visions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as Saving 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 and numerous others...read more

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9781903364383 | Wallflower Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Visions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, Invasion U.

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9781903364741 | Wallflower Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Visions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, Invasion U.

Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema

Product Description: Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780791456231 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $65.50 | About this edition: Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.

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9780791456248 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.

Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader

Product Description: This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the long tradition of American avant-garde cinema, from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader addresses major movements and key figures of the avant-garde, including filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Isaac Julien and Julie Dash, investigates how underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video...read more

By Wheeler Winston Dixon (editor) and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (editor)

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9780415277860 | Routledge, November 1, 2002, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the long tradition of American avant-garde cinema, from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.

Paperback:

9780415277877, titled "Experimental Cinema, the Film Reader" | Routledge, October 1, 2002, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the long tradition of American avant-garde cinema, from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.

Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema

The film scholar servies up a behind-the-scenes look at the people who have shaped cinema in twentieth century, in a collection of interviews with Jonathan Miller, Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Sally Cruikshank, Alex Nicol, and others. (view table of contents)

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780809324170 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, November 29, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The film scholar servies up a behind-the-scenes look at the people who have shaped cinema in twentieth century, in a collection of interviews with Jonathan Miller, Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Sally Cruikshank, Alex Nicol, and others.

Paperback:

9780809324071 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The film scholar servies up a behind-the-scenes look at the people who have shaped cinema in twentieth century, in a collection of interviews with Jonathan Miller, Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Sally Cruikshank, Alex Nicol, and others.

The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791445150 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $53.50 | About this edition: 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.

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9780791445167 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 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.

Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays

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By Wheeler Winston Dixon (editor)

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9780791445136 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $55.50

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9780791445143 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $29.95

Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema

Product Description: -- Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classic Cinema (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780231113168 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: -- Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classic Cinema

Paperback:

9780231113175 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: 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.

The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image

Product Description: 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...read more

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9780791437810 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $51.50 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780791437827 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema

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By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780791435656 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $60.50

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9780791435663 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $31.95

The Films of Jean-Luc Godard

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791432853 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780791432860 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: 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.

It Looks at You: The Returned Gaze of Cinema

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780791423394 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $52.50

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9780791423400 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $29.95

Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900-1992: Essays and Interviews

By Wheeler Winston Dixon (editor)

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9780791418611 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $60.50

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9780791418628 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $31.95

The Films of Freddie Francis

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By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780810823587 | Scarecrow Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.

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9780943728520 | Lone Eagle Pub Co, December 1, 1993, cover price $16.95

The Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut

Product Description: Before turning to filmmaking, Franiois Truffaut was a film critic writing for Cahiers du Cin ma during the 1950s. "The Early Film Criticism of Franiois Truffaut" makes available, for the first time in English, articles that originally appeared in French journals such as "Cahiers du Cin ma" and "Arts"...read more

By Wheeler Winston Dixon, Ruth Cassel Hoffman (contributor) and Francois Truffaut

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9780253318077 | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Before turning to filmmaking, Franiois Truffaut was a film critic writing for Cahiers du Cin ma during the 1950s.

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9780253207715 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Before turning to filmmaking, Francois Truffaut was a film critic writing for Cahiers du Cinema during the 1950s.

The Films of Reginald Leborg: Interviews, Essays, and Filmography

By Wheeler Winston Dixon and Reginald Leborg

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9780810825505 | Scarecrow Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $50.00

The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher

Product Description: Terence Fisher was the director who brought the modern Gothic horror film to life in the second half of the twentieth century. As director John Carpenter (Halloween) notes in his introduction to the volume, "to see [Fisher's] films now...read more

By Wheeler Winston Dixon

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9780810823754 | Scarecrow Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Terence Fisher was the director who brought the modern Gothic horror film to life in the second half of the twentieth century.

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