Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. GENRE: 1. The Future Catches Up with the Past: Peter Bogdanovich's "Targets"; 2. Surrealism and Sudden Death in the Films of Lucio Fulci; 3. "Flash Gordon" and the 1930s and '40s Science Fiction Serial; 4. Just the Facts, Man: The Complicated Genesis of Television's Dragnet; 5. The Disquieting Aura of Fabian Bielinsky; PART II. HISTORY: 6. Fast Worker: The Films of Sam Newfield; 7. The Power of Resistance: "Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne"; 8. Beyond Characterization: Performance in 1960s Experimental Cinema; 9. Vanishing Point: The Last Days of Film; PART III. INTERVIEWS: 10. "Let the Sleepers Sleep and the Haters Hate": An Interview with Dale "Rage" Resteghini; 11. "Margin Call": An Interview with J. C. Chandor; 12. "All My Films Are Personal": An Interview with Pat Jackson; 13. Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O'Hara; 14. Andrew V. McLaglen: Last of the Hollywood Professionals; 15. Pop Star, Director, Actor: An Interview with Michael Sarne; Works Cited and Consulted; About the Author; Index

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A much-needed analysis of the forgotten films and filmmakers of the past that are being marginalized and pushed aside by the current loss of historical perspective in film.

About the Author

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies and coordinator of the Film Studies Program at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and editor-in-chief, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, of the "Quarterly Review of Film and Video."