Wheeler Winston Dixon is James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, Coordinator of the Film Studies Program, and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA. His newest books are Black & White Cinema: A Brief History (2015), Cinema at the Margins (2013), Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access (2013); Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood (2012); 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (2011, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster); A History of Horror (2010), and Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (2009). Dixon's book A Short History of Film (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) is a required text in universities throughout the world.
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Acknowledgments
Origins
The 1930s: Escapism and Reality
The 1940s: A black-and-White World
The 1950s: The Age of Anxiety
The 1960s: Endgame
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index