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.

Autorentext
Wheeler Winston Dixon is Ryan Professor of Film Studies at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

Inhalt

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 Ophls, Romantic Fatalist