Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His newest books include A Short History of Film (co-written with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, 2008); Film Talk: Directors at Work (2007) and Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema (2006). He worked as a filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2003, Dixon was honored with a retrospective of his films at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his films were acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum, in both print and original format.

• Introduction; 1. The Dream of Return; 2. The Postwar Bubble; 3. Fifties Death Trip; 4. The Flip Side of the Sixties; 5. The Failure of Culture; 6. Living in Fear; Appendix: A Gallery of Classic Noir 'Heavies'.

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His newest books include A Short History of Film (co-written with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, 2008); Film Talk: Directors at Work (2007) and Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema (2006). He worked as a filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2003, Dixon was honored with a retrospective of his films at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his films were acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum, in both print and original format.

• Introduction; 1. The Dream of Return; 2. The Postwar Bubble; 3. Fifties Death Trip; 4. The Flip Side of the Sixties; 5. The Failure of Culture; 6. Living in Fear; Appendix: A Gallery of Classic Noir 'Heavies'.

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His newest books include A Short History of Film (co-written with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, 2008); Film Talk: Directors at Work (2007) and Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema (2006). He worked as a filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2003, Dixon was honored with a retrospective of his films at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his films were acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum, in both print and original format.

• Introduction; 1. The Dream of Return; 2. The Postwar Bubble; 3. Fifties Death Trip; 4. The Flip Side of the Sixties; 5. The Failure of Culture; 6. Living in Fear; Appendix: A Gallery of Classic Noir 'Heavies'.