"Death of the Moguls "is a detailed assessment of the last days of the "rulers of film." Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zuckor at Paramount, and Herbert L. Yates at Republic in the [...]
Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s presents six detailed chapters on various topics that relate to genre cinema, concentrating on films and filmmakers whose films offered wide ranging commentary on popular culture. Covering both little and well-known films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanou[...]
"Visions of the Apocalypse" examines the cinemas fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as "Saving Private Ryan," "Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, The Last Days of Man on Earth" and numerous others. Encompassing both questions of physical[...]