Wesley King

Wesley King è un autore canadese altamente apprezzato, noto soprattutto per i suoi romanzi di fantascienza e fantasy che presentano protagonisti adolescenti con abilità straordinarie. In un breve lasso di tempo, King ha ottenuto un significativo successo e riconoscimento per il suo lavoro, ricevendo diversi premi e onorificenze.

I romanzi di King hanno guadagnato un vasto seguito e il suo lavoro è stato riconosciuto con numerosi premi, tra cui il prestigioso Schneider Family Book Award dell'American Library Association per il suo romanzo "OCDaniel", che tratta le sfide di vivere con il disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo. Oltre al suo successo nel mondo letterario, i libri di King sono stati opzionati anche per possibili adattamenti cinematografici, consolidando ulteriormente il suo status come stella nascente nel mondo della narrativa per giovani adulti.

Wesley King è autore di undici romanzi, tra cui la popolare "Vindico Series" e la "Wizenard Series", che ha co-autore con la leggenda del basket Kobe Bryant. Il suo lavoro è stato elogiato per la sua creatività, umorismo e personaggi facilmente relazionabili, rendendolo un autore amato dai lettori di tutte le età.

Oltre alla sua scrittura, King è anche un appassionato velista e ha intrapreso un viaggio per navigare intorno al mondo su una barca a vela del 1967. Questo spirito avventuroso si riflette nel suo lavoro, che spesso presenta temi di esplorazione, scoperta e autosufficienza. Nonostante il suo fitto calendario, King rimane dedicato al suo mestiere e continua a produrre storie affascinanti e impegnative che risuonano con i lettori in tutto il mondo.
The Vindico Books
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1 The Vindico 2012
2 The Feros 2013
Dragons vs. Drones Books
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1 Dragons vs. Drones 2016
2 Enemy of the Realm 2017
OCDaniel Books
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1 OCDaniel 2016
2 Sara and the Search for Normal 2020
Wizenard Books (with Kobe Bryant)
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1 Training Camp 2019
2 Season One 2020
Romanzi singoli
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1 The Incredible Space Raiders from Space! 2015
2 Laura Monster Crusher 2017
3 A World Below 2018
4 Hello 2021
5 Butt Sandwich & Tree 2022
SUNY Books Horizons of Cinema
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1 Cavell on Film 2005
2 Rebel Without a Cause: Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork 2005
3 The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli 2006
4 Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium 2007
5 Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema 2007
6 Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work beyond Hollywood 2008
7 Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun 2008
8 Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge 2009
9 Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch 2009
10 Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel 2010
11 Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon 2011
12 Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter 2011
13 Hitchcock, Second Edition: The Murderous Gaze 2012
14 Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western 2012
15 Hollywood's New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese 2013
16 Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema 2014
17 B Is for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value 2014
18 Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film 2014
19 Binghamton Babylon: Voices from the Cinema Department, 1967-1977 2015
20 Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity 2016
21 Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics 2016
22 Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity 2016
23 Doing Time: Temporality, Hermeneutics, and Contemporary Cinema 2016
24 Looking with Robert Gardner 2016
25 Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image 2016
26 John Huston as Adaptor 2017
27 Hitchcock's Moral Gaze 2017
28 American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray 2017
29 Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, Peter Watkins, and Lars von Trier 2017
30 Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema 2017
31 Passionate Detachments: Technologies of Vision and Violence in American Cinema, 1967-1974 2017
32 Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film 2017
33 Rx Hollywood: Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s 2018
34 Queer Art Camp Superstar: Decoding the Cinematic Cyberworld of Ryan Trecartin 2018
35 Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier 2018
36 Rule, Britannia!: The Biopic and British National Identity 2018
37 Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination 2018
38 Rumble and Crash: Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film 2019
39 From El Dorado to Lost Horizons: Traditionalist Films in the Hollywood Renaissance, 1967-1972 2019
40 Sounds Like Helicopters: Classical Music in Modernist Cinema 2019
41 Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies 2019
42 Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy 2019
43 The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939 2019
44 Slapstick Camera, The: Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference 2020
45 Miraculous Realism: The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord 2020
46 Funny How?: Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor 2020
47 Letters from Hollywood: 1977-2017 2020
48 Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema 2020
49 Mind Reeling: Psychopathology on Film 2020
50 Was It Yesterday?: Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television 2021
51 Race and the Suburbs in American Film 2021
52 Curtains of Light: Theatrical Space in Film 2021
53 Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope 2021
54 Seeing Symphonically 2021
55 Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema 2021
56 Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation 2021
57 The Holiday in His Eye 2021
58 The Hard Sell of Paradise: Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism 2022
59 Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination 2022
60 Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East: A History of Circulation 2022
61 Action, Action, Action: The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh 2022
62 The Cinematographer's Voice 2022
63 White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema 2022
64 No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema 2022
65 Whiteness at the End of the World: Race in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema 2022
66 Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth 2022
67 Distancing Representations in Transgender Film: Identification, Affect, and the Audience 2023