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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The Vindico
2012
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The Feros
2013
Dragons vs. Drones Books
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Dragons vs. Drones
2016
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Enemy of the Realm
2017
OCDaniel Books
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OCDaniel
2016
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Sara and the Search for Normal
2020
Wizenard Books (with Kobe Bryant)
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Training Camp
2019
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Season One
2020
Romanzi singoli
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The Incredible Space Raiders from Space!
2015
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Laura Monster Crusher
2017
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A World Below
2018
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Hello
2021
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Butt Sandwich & Tree
2022
SUNY Books Horizons of Cinema
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Cavell on Film
2005
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Rebel Without a Cause: Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork
2005
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The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli
2006
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Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium
2007
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Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema
2007
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Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work beyond Hollywood
2008
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Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun
2008
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Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge
2009
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Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch
2009
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Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel
2010
11
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon
2011
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Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter
2011
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Hitchcock, Second Edition: The Murderous Gaze
2012
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Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western
2012
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Hollywood's New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese
2013
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Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema
2014
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B Is for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value
2014
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Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film
2014
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Binghamton Babylon: Voices from the Cinema Department, 1967-1977
2015
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Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity
2016
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Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
2016
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Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity
2016
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Doing Time: Temporality, Hermeneutics, and Contemporary Cinema
2016
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Looking with Robert Gardner
2016
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Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image
2016
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John Huston as Adaptor
2017
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Hitchcock's Moral Gaze
2017
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American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray
2017
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Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, Peter Watkins, and Lars von Trier
2017
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Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema
2017
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Passionate Detachments: Technologies of Vision and Violence in American Cinema, 1967-1974
2017
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Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film
2017
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Rx Hollywood: Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s
2018
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Queer Art Camp Superstar: Decoding the Cinematic Cyberworld of Ryan Trecartin
2018
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Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier
2018
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Rule, Britannia!: The Biopic and British National Identity
2018
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Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination
2018
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Rumble and Crash: Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film
2019
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From El Dorado to Lost Horizons: Traditionalist Films in the Hollywood Renaissance, 1967-1972
2019
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Sounds Like Helicopters: Classical Music in Modernist Cinema
2019
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Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies
2019
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Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy
2019
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The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
2019
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Slapstick Camera, The: Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference
2020
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Miraculous Realism: The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord
2020
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Funny How?: Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor
2020
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Letters from Hollywood: 1977-2017
2020
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Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema
2020
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Mind Reeling: Psychopathology on Film
2020
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Was It Yesterday?: Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television
2021
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Race and the Suburbs in American Film
2021
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Curtains of Light: Theatrical Space in Film
2021
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Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
2021
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Seeing Symphonically
2021
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Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema
2021
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Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation
2021
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The Holiday in His Eye
2021
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The Hard Sell of Paradise: Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism
2022
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Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination
2022
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Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East: A History of Circulation
2022
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Action, Action, Action: The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh
2022
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The Cinematographer's Voice
2022
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White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema
2022
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No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema
2022
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Whiteness at the End of the World: Race in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema
2022
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Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
2022
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Distancing Representations in Transgender Film: Identification, Affect, and the Audience