Wheeler Winston Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1031372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wheeler Winston Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wheeler Winston |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A History of Horror
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 A History of Horror is 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, Fra…
The philosophy of the Ramones
This article traces the history and influence of The Ramones, an American rock & roll band that founded the ‘punk rock’ movement, which then spread to England and such bands as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, along with many other similar groups. Although they never achieved mainstream success during their more than twenty year career, The Ramones are now are considered by many to be one of the most important pop music groups of the later twenty-cent…
Jim Thompson – dark poet of the plains
This article considers the life and career of the American novelist Jim Thompson, whose bleak vision of American society, and the Midwest in particular, led him to write a series of highly praised and influential ‘hard-boiled’ paperback novels, which were initially dismissed as popular entertainment, but are now considered American classics, showing the dark underside of the American Dream. Thompson laboured in obscurity for much of his life, and…
Margin Call
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Pop Star, Director, Actor
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All My Films Are Personal”
This article presents an interview with the British filmmaker Pat Jackson, covering his entire career from the mid-1930s, working for the GPO Film Unit, through his work on the classic television series The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan
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 a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later videocassettes, the web, and the Internet, to create, by the early 21st century a hypersurveillant atmosphere in which no one can avoid the barrage o…
The Failure of Culture
The Colonial Vision of Edgar Wallace
The Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut
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The Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut
The Colonial Vision of Edgar Wallace
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 a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later videocassettes, the web, and the Internet, to create, by the early 21st century a hypersurveillant atmosphere in which no one can avoid the barrage o…
The Failure of Culture
Pop Star, Director, Actor
Preview this article: Pop Star, Director, Actor: an interview with Michael Sarne, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fint/9/5/s4-1.gif
All My Films Are Personal”
This article presents an interview with the British filmmaker Pat Jackson, covering his entire career from the mid-1930s, working for the GPO Film Unit, through his work on the classic television series The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan
Margin Call
Preview this article: Margin Call: an Interview with J.C. Chandor, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fint/10/3/s2-1.gif
Jim Thompson – dark poet of the plains
This article considers the life and career of the American novelist Jim Thompson, whose bleak vision of American society, and the Midwest in particular, led him to write a series of highly praised and influential ‘hard-boiled’ paperback novels, which were initially dismissed as popular entertainment, but are now considered American classics, showing the dark underside of the American Dream. Thompson laboured in obscurity for much of his life, and…
The philosophy of the Ramones
This article traces the history and influence of The Ramones, an American rock & roll band that founded the ‘punk rock’ movement, which then spread to England and such bands as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, along with many other similar groups. Although they never achieved mainstream success during their more than twenty year career, The Ramones are now are considered by many to be one of the most important pop music groups of the later twenty-cent…
A History of Horror
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 A History of Horror is 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, Fra…
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