Wheeler Winston Dixon
Film and Digital Historian / Video Artist
Selected Articles and Reviews Online
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Detailed Review of A History of Horror, 2nd Edition
Streaming Directly from the Cloud to Your Brain
Black-and-White is Dead: Long Live Black-and-White
Death of The Moguls Interview
Ecstatic Cinema: Romantic Experimental Filmmaking in the 1960s
American Wasteland: Alex Garland's Civil War
Voyage to the End of the Universe: Aniara
A Splash of Light in the Darkness: Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire
The Future Made and Unmade: Andrew Legge's LOLA
Frame by Frame: 93 Brief Video Essays on Film History
Hyperconsumption in Reality Television
The Philosophy of the Ramones
Margin Call: An Interview with J.C. Chandor
Jim Thompson: Dark Poet of the Plains
Kelly Reichardt: Working Against the Grain
Great Actors: Humphrey Bogart
Sight & Sound 2022 Greatest Films of All Time Poll
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Great Actors: Michael Caine
Shockproof: The Insanity of Romantic Desire
Fritz Lang in America: While The City Sleeps
An Interview with Monte Hellman (1929-2021)
Grandeur and Decadence: Luchino Visconti's The Damned
When Everything Seemed Possible: London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde
Pop Music: Ecstatic Moments Out of Time
Film in Lockdown: Cinema in the Age of COVID
Ghost Town Anthology: An Interview with Denis Côté
“An Artist Always Paints His Own Portrait”: Jean Cocteau’s Testament of Orpheus (1960)
When Animals Take Over: The Post-Pandemic Backlash
The 21st Century Plague: Cinema in the Age of COVID-19
What Happened? The Digital Shift in Cinema
"I Do Not Believe" - Sidney Hayers' Night of the Eagle
The Power of Imagination: The Innocents
Thriller: The Bride Who Died Twice (Ida Lupino, 1962)
Shoot The Piano Player: A Respectful Pastiche
Rethinking They Came To a City
Synthetic Cinema: Mainstream Movies in the 21st Century
Great Directors: Manoel de Oliveira
The Ghost of Frankenstein: The Monster in the Digital Age
A Life Lived for Art: The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Obsession and Madness in The Hands of Orlac
Kicking Over The Traces: Dorothy Arzner's Merrily We Go to Hell
Scenes From A Revolution: Eric Rohmer's The Lady and the Duke
"No One Can Kill Me" : The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Phil Karlson: The Forgotten Master of Film Noir
Budd Boetticher: The Last Hollywood Rebel
"A Fantastic, Enchanted Ballet": Federico Fellini's 8 1/2
Bringing the Dead Back To Life: Don Sharp's Psychomania
Cinema and Poetry: T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral
Robert Downey Sr.'s Anarchist Cinema
William Wellman's Night Nurse
Being Elizabeth Bishop: Barbara Hammer's New Documentary on an American Poet
Dreams of Jules Verne: Karel Zeman’s Invention of Destruction (Vynález zkázy)
An Interview with Denis Côté
Punch Drunk Love
Joseph Lawson, Genre Director - An Interview
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Godzilla: Savior of Mankind
OffOn: An Explosion of the Senses
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures
Oculus: Another Look In the Haunted Mirror
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s L’Immortelle
The Spartans Meet The Muppets, or 300: Rise of an Empire
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Shackled (Belenggu): A Well-Mounted Disappointment
The Unbearable Lightness of Gravity; The Depth and Resonance of Adore
Just The Facts, Man: The Complicated Genesis of Television's Dragnet
Surrealism and Sudden Death in the Films of Lucio Fulci
The Future Catches Up With The Past: Peter Bogdanovich's Targets
Yasujirō Ozu: The Gangster Films
Introducing Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access
Truth in Pop Art: An Interview with Donny Miller
Fast Worker: The Films of Sam Newfield
In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectators After the Cinema by Gabriele Pedullà
The Unbearable Lightness of Gravity; The Depth and Resonance of Adore
Light from the Screen: Cinema, Painting and Spectatorship
Andy's Gang, Or Saturday Morning of the Living Dead
Beyond Characterization: Performance in 1960s Experimental Cinema
Community, Loss, and Regeneration: An Interview in Senses of Cinema
Vanishing Point: The Last Days of Film
The Power of Resistance: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Mike Leigh, Topsy Turvy, and the Excavation of Memory
Andrew V. McLaglen: Last of the Hollywood Professionals
Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria
Treasures IV: American Avantgarde Film, 1947 -1986
The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II
Fear and Self-Loathing: Horror and Homophobia in the Films of Herman Cohen
Great Directors: Ida Lupino
Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O’Hara
Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s