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Cinema at the Margins
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 and transported audiences in the 1930s, 1940s, and even as recently as the 1960s? This collection of essays aims to highlight some of the lesser-known treasures of the past – those titles that have been pushed aside by today’s wave of cinema amnesia.
238 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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Wheeler Winston Dixon
59 books14 followersWheeler Winston Dixon is an American filmmaker, scholar and author, and an expert on film history, theory and criticism.
His scholarship has particular emphasis on François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, American experimental cinema and horror films. He has written extensively on numerous aspects of film, including his books A Short History of Film and A History of Horror. From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is regarded as a top reviewer of films. In addition, he is notable as an experimental American filmmaker with films made over several decades, and the Museum of Modern Art exhibited his works in 2003. He has taught at a number of schools of higher learning.
His scholarship has particular emphasis on François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, American experimental cinema and horror films. He has written extensively on numerous aspects of film, including his books A Short History of Film and A History of Horror. From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is regarded as a top reviewer of films. In addition, he is notable as an experimental American filmmaker with films made over several decades, and the Museum of Modern Art exhibited his works in 2003. He has taught at a number of schools of higher learning.
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January 3, 2014
I have always been a fan of older movies, mainly because I feel they relied more on the skill of directing and of actor talent as opposed to the visual effects-overloaded movies of the current generation. With this being said, I was delighted to come across this book written by such an expert on practically everything regarding film history. I had high hopes at first, but Cinema at the Margins has gone way above and beyond my initial expectations and left me more than impressed. I will definitely be sharing this with my students and I'm sure they will appreciate it just as much as I have.
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