Wheeler Winston Dixon

Film and Digital Historian / Video Artist



Selected Articles and Reviews Online

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Streaming Directly from the Cloud to Your Brain
Black-and-White is Dead: Long Live Black-and-White
Death of The Moguls Interview
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

Ecstatic Cinema: Romantic Experimental Filmmaking in the 1960s

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

Thoughts on Two Recent Films: Dallas Buyers Club and Catching Fire
The Most Important Film Book of 2014: 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

La decima vittima

Le Mystère Picasso

Shackled (Belenggu): A Well-Mounted Disappointment

Hollywood Exiles in Europe

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

Lab Coats in Hollywood

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

La Dolce Vita

One Hour With You

Partie de Campagne

Les Mistons

Underworld USA

Voyage To Italy

Wavelength

Acto de Primavera

Great Directors: Roger Corman

Shanghai Express

The Intruder

Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O’Hara

Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s