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Richard Stiennon
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Chuck Dixon, Scott McDaniel
Nightwing flies solo!
Chuck Dixon, Michael T. Gilbert
A new Batman s deadly crusade against the criminals of Gotham City begins!
Wheeler Winston Dixon
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 ? This title offers answers…
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An overview of 20th and 21st-century film noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards.
This is a detailed assessment of the last days of the “rulers of film’ from Hollywood’s classical era. Using rare, behind-the-scenes stills, Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the De Haviland decision…
Explores the work of lesser-known American experimental filmmakers whose films, though well-received and influential, have been excluded from the dominant film canon.
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New essays by prominent film scholars address recent developments in American genre filmmaking.
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Examines the lost films and directors of the 1950s. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, the author’s 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues of rape, prostitution, and gangs…
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…
This is a study of the returned gaze from the cinema screen, demonstrating that the films that we watch watch us, guide us, control our gaze, and enforce societal codes.
A generously illustrated overview of, and introduction to, the entirety of Godard’s work as a filmmaker and video artist.
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…
Contemplates the future of cinema in light of emerging digital technologies and new systems of distribution.
Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.
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…
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…
Before turning to filmmaking, Franiois Truffaut was a film critic writing for Cahiers du Cinema during the 1950s. This title features the articles that originally appeared in French journals such…
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.
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…
A study of how digital technology has altered contemporary filmmaking, including audience habits. Chronicle of Higher Education
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…
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…
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…
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…
Wheeler Winston Dixon,Richard Graham
A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film.
LeBorg, the quintessential Hollywood contract director, worked constantly during the 1940s and 1950s at such studios as Universal, PRC, and Monogram. With stills and a thorough filmography.
Karen Outen
Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume…
Official licensed merchandise music. This Cliff Richard Slim Calendar is a month to view calendar perfectly designed for smaller wall spaces. Each month features imagery of the incredible Sir Cliff…
Kate Clements
Drawing on IWM's unique collection, Winston Churchill showcases 50 iconic images of Britain's wartime prime minister.
Richard Powers
A new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author
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Richard Osman
The fourth book in the Trecord-breaking Thursday Murder Club series from British ntreasure RichardOsman
Richard Scarry
Celebrate 50 years of planes, trains, and pickle cars with this anniversary edition of the beloved classic, complete with never-before-seen sketches!
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Richard Flanagan
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction…
Tanya Bentley
The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. Barbara Walker, Tom…
Cliff Richard A3 Calendar. A firm favourite, this official wall features recent imagery of music icon Sir Cliff Richard. This wall also includes monthly date panels that have plenty of…
