LIBROS DEL AUTOR: wheeler dixon

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: wheeler dixon

  • A Brief History of Comic Book Movies
    Richard Graham / Wheeler Winston Dixon
    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, th...
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    73,29 €

  • Hollywood in Crisis or
    Wheeler Winston Dixon
    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 sys...
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    73,21 €

  • Cinema at the Margins
    Wheeler Dixon
    More and more, just a few canonical classics, such as Michael Curtiz’s 'Casablanca' (1942) or Victor Fleming’s “Gone With The Wind” (1939), are representing the entire film output of an era, to a new generation that knows little of the past, and is encouraged by popular media to live only in the eternal present. What will happen to the rest of the films that enchanted, informed...
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    57,48 €

  • American Cinema of the 1940s
    Wheeler Winston Dixon
    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 veng...
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    45,60 €

  • The Exploding Eye
    Wheeler Winston Dixon
    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, Bru...
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    47,24 €