Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s [recurso electrónico]

Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present. 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 Hanoun, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Max Ophuls), Dixon's writings draw on a multitude of critical, historical, and archival sources to capture the reader's attention from start to finish Review: "Dixon is a first-rate film scholar, critic, and historian, and the qualities he has cultivated and refined over the years are evident in everything from the clarity, lucidity, and liveliness of his prose to the accuracy of his research, the force of his arguments, and the perspicuity of his judgments." - David Sterritt, Chair, National Society of Film Critics 1. Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s 2. A Cinema of Violence: The Films of D. Ross Lederman 3. Juan Orol, Phantom of the Mexican Cinema 4. Missing in Action: The Lost Version of Vanishing 5. The Invisible Cinema of Marcel Hanoun 6. The Noir Vision of Max Ophuls, Romantic Fatalist