The first book to posit a theory of "synthetic cinema," the cinema of the contemporary film industry that dominates across genres and budgets Offers inside technical information on how the films are made Deals with comic book and fantasy films, and fan input from Comic-Con

Autorentext

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, Coordinator of the Film Studies Program, and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA. Among his extensive list of books, he is author of three Palgrave Pivot titles: A Brief History of Comic Book Movies (co-authored with Richard Graham, Palgrave, 2017), Hollywood in Crisis or: The Collapse of the Real (Palgrave, 2016), and Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s (Palgrave, 2015).

Inhalt

1. Synthetic Cinema: Leaving the Real World.- 2. Service Providers: Form Over Content.- 3. Slaves of Vision: The VR World.- 4. The 21st-Century Movie Machine.