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Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon

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Flash Gordon and the 1930s and 40s Science Fiction Serial

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:November 2, 2011
  • Post category:Issue 32 - First Release

Motion picture serials, the forerunner of today’s serialized television dramas, have been around since the earliest days of the narrative cinema. Exhibitors rapidly realized that in order to assure continued…

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The British ‘B’ Film

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:January 4, 2015
  • Post category:Issue 27 - Reviews

Stephen Chibnall and Brian McFarlane, The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84457-319-6 US$30.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by BFI/Palgrave Macmillan) Let me say right off that…

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Wavelength

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:January 4, 2015
  • Post category:Issue 27 - Reviews

Elizabeth Legge, Wavelength. London: Afterall Books, 2009 ISBN-10: 1-846380-56-1 US$16.00 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Michael Snow’s Wavelength (US 1966) is a groundbreaking film in every sense of the…

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The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:January 4, 2015
  • Post category:Issue 28 - Reviews

David Welky, The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0801890444 US$45.00 (pb) 448pp (Review copy supplied by…

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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:July 29, 2012
  • Post category:Issue 34 - Reviews

Wayne Koestenbaum, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780520269019 US$29.95 (pb) 336pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) This is an eccentric,…

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Andy Warhol’s Blow Job

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:January 4, 2015
  • Post category:Issue 25 - Reviews

Peter Gidal, Andy Warhol’s Blow Job. London: Afterall Books, 2008. ISBN: 1-846380-41-3 US$16.00 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) During its most influential “Silver” period, Andy Warhol’s factory…

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Beyond Characterization: Performance in 1960s Experimental Cinema

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:January 4, 2015
  • Post category:Issue 29 - First Release

  Abstract The New American Cinema of the 1960s differed from conventional models of filmmaking in many ways, embracing chance, roughness of physical execution, an impoverishment of technical and financial…

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Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British ‘B’ Film

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:January 3, 2015
  • Post category:Issue 23 - Reviews

Steve Chibnall, Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British ‘B’ Film. London: BFI, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1844571550 US$28.95 (pb) 329pp (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) Steve Chibnall is a well-known…

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Films by Gordon Ball (dvd review)

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:April 2, 2011
  • Post category:Issue 30 - Reviews

(Canyon Cinema.www.canyoncinema.com) US$50 (individual) US$150 (institution) Some films move you, some films entertain you, and some films enlighten you. Watching Gordon Ball’s films is a transcendent experience, and I’m sure…

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Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s, Patrice Petro (ed.)

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:April 2, 2011
  • Post category:Issue 30 - Reviews

New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4732-9 US$25.95(pb) 328pp (Review copy supplied by Rutgers University Press) This excellent volume, part of the series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema, edited by…

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Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O’Hara

  • Post author:Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Post published:April 2, 2011
  • Post category:Issue 30 - First Release

Gerry O’Hara is a true original, and if he never really got the chance to definitively climb out of the ranks of assistant directors into the realm of full-fledged feature…

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