Wheeler Winston DixonA Short History of Film, Third Edition
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema&;especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers&;an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
Wheeler 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.
