Skip to content

Flow

A Critical Forum on Media and Culture

A Critical Forum on Media and Culture

  • Home
  • ABOUT FLOW
  • CONTRIBUTE
    • How to Contribute
    • CURRENT CALLS
  • CREDITS
    • AUTHORS
    • EDITORIAL TEAM
    • TECHNICAL CREDITS
    • FORMER EDITORS
  • OVER*FLOW

Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Coordinator of the Film Studies Program at UNL, and with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His newest books include the 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster; forthcoming, Rutgers University Press, 2011); A History of Horror (Rutgers University Press, 2010), Film Noir and The Cinema of Paranoia (Rutgers University Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and A Short History of Film, written with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Rutgers University Press and I.B. Tauris, 2008). As a filmmaker, his complete works are in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, following a career retrospective at MoMA in 2003.

Film, Nostalgia, and The Digital Divide
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln

May 19, 2012 Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska, Lincoln 3 comments

The old films and film camera equipment have been almost taken away from us – and apparently, we didn’t even notice.

Read more

The Great Wikipedia Blackout, The Stop Online Piracy Act, and You
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln

February 27, 2012 Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska, Lincoln One comment

What underlie the Internet blackout are protection of content on the one hand and freedom of access and information on the other.

Read more

I’m Not Here
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln

December 5, 2011 Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2 comments

It’s time for us to center down, appreciate our current existence and be sensitive to our real surroundings instead of being online all the time.

Read more

How Long Will it Last, and Do You Really Own It?
Wheeler Winston Dixon / The University of Nebraska, Lincoln

September 3, 2011 Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska, Lincoln 6 comments

Winston Wheeler Dixon wonders: what will happen to ownership when media content will cease to be material?

Read more

Red Boxes and Cloud Movies
Wheeler Winston Dixon / The University of Nebraska, Lincoln

July 21, 2011 Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska, Lincoln 9 comments

Wheeler Winston Dixon considers the ubiquity of Redbox kiosks and their implications for the DVD market.

Read more

Some Notes on Streaming
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska, Lincoln

June 9, 2011 Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska, Lincoln 23 comments

Wheeler Winston Dixon explores the ramifications of Netlix’s move to video streaming on brick and mortar video stores.

Read more
Flow is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media.

Search Flow:

Archives

Over*Flow: Responses to Breaking TV & Media News

Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
Lauren Herold / Kenyon College and Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University

"Blonde is a Kind of Person": A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University

@FlowTV Conversations…

FLOW Follow

A critical forum on media and culture brought to you by the graduate students of @UTRTF.

FlowTV
flowtv FLOW @flowtv ·
17h

New in Over*Flow: @renherold and @cinefeminism examine the deconstruction of cis gay masculinity in the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros, reassessing its "bad object" status. Read more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/09/over-flow-gender-sex-bros/

Reply on Twitter 1704610092304281611 Retweet on Twitter 1704610092304281611 8 Like on Twitter 1704610092304281611 7 Twitter 1704610092304281611
Retweet on Twitter FLOW Retweeted
horrorlex Horror Lex® @horrorlex ·
16 Aug

NOPE is about the eye of the camera, but also Black defiance of it. Read Sophia Abbey's brief but excellent piece at @FlowTV, "Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope." #OpenAccess
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/08/gazing-upwards/

Reply on Twitter 1691870098997293165 Retweet on Twitter 1691870098997293165 1 Like on Twitter 1691870098997293165 Twitter 1691870098997293165
flowtv FLOW @flowtv ·
2 May

Happy Tuesday, and happy Volume 29.07 release day! The final issue of Flow in the spring features work from @baker_r_r, @Naledgesince82, @caitmckinney, @MichaelSocolow, and Michele White! Read the full issue here: http://flowjournal.org

Reply on Twitter 1653444245121028097 Retweet on Twitter 1653444245121028097 3 Like on Twitter 1653444245121028097 4 Twitter 1653444245121028097
flowtv FLOW @flowtv ·
7 Apr

TGIF!! Celebrate by reading vol. 29.06-up on the site now. Thx to @jenholt13 @rebeccasholt @kevindriscoll and @TrueIcaRash for their contributions!!

Reply on Twitter 1644334525332299785 Retweet on Twitter 1644334525332299785 6 Like on Twitter 1644334525332299785 10 Twitter 1644334525332299785
Load More

Popular Posts

  • The Devil in the Details: User Tracking Is Hurting More Than Our Privacy, It’s Doing Serious Damage to Public-Interest Media, Too.
    Josh Braun / UMass Amherst
    February 22, 2019 281 comments
  • Pass the Remote: Online News

    June 10, 2005 198 comments
  • Legal Fictions

    June 10, 2005 171 comments
  • Why Do I Love Television So Very Much?

    March 9, 2007 102 comments
  • Watching Everybody Hates Chris in Brazil
    Reighan Gillam / University of Michigan
    March 5, 2013 99 comments

Tags

Advertising American Politics Branding Comedy Commercial Interests Communication Technology COVID-19 Criticism Family Fandom Femininity Feminism Gender Globalization Global Media Global Politics Industry Media Influence Music Netflix New Media News Over*Flow Pedagogy Pop Culture Public Media Race/Ethnicity Radio Reality TV Representation social media streaming Technology Television UK Viewing Volume 23 Volume 24 Volume 25 volume 26 Volume 27 Volume 28 Volume 29 Whiteness Youth Culture