Wheeler Winston Dixon is James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, Coordinator of the Film Studies Program, and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA. His newest books are Black & White Cinema: A Brief History (2015), Cinema at the Margins (2013), Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access (2013); Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood (2012); 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (2011, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster); A History of Horror (2010), and Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (2009). Dixon’s book A Short History of Film (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) is a required text in universities throughout the world. Freddie Francis (1917-2007) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Society of Cinematographers in 1997, The International Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1997, and was awarded a special BAFTA for his Lifelong Contributions to Cinema in 2004.
