as Quentin Tarantino: As a film historian, he wrote about the moguls of the 1950s: In 2014, when computer hackers infiltrated Sony Pictures Entertainment, Dixon was quoted in the Los Angeles Times that the exposure of confidential studio emails and films served as a "wake-up call to the entire industry." In December 2015, he was quoted by Manohla Dargis in the New York Times on the demise of the DVD format, saying that "if you go on Amazon and you see some great black-and-white film, and it’s going for $3, or any kind of foreign or obscure film, buy it, because it’s going out of print, and they’re not going to put them back into print.” In 2020, the New York Times interviewed Dixon on the new wave of horror films from Universal Studios, and why the more recent "Dark Universe" films were unsuccessful. Dixon noted that "there will be films about Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, long after we’re gone. They’ll still be mining these things. But the ones that will be effective will be made by people who are sincerely invested in the material and treat these creatures with deadly seriousness." In 2016, Dixon returned to experimental cinema working in HD video, with such films as An American Dream, Still Life, and Closed Circuit. From 2010 to 2020, he coordinated film studies at the University of Nebraska. He has also written extensively on the films of the late Robert Downey Sr.; Dixon and Downey were friends from the late 1960s up until Downey Sr.'s death in 2021. Personal life Dixon is the nephew of the artist Nina Barr Wheeler. Publications His books (as author or editor) include: Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie Machine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) The Films of Terence Fisher: Hammer Horror and Beyond (Auteur / Columbia University Press, 2017) A Brief History of Comic Book Movies, with Richard Graham (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) Hollywood in Crisis or: The Collapse of the Real (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Black & White Cinema: A Short History (Rutgers University Press, 2015) Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Cinema at The Margins (Anthem Press, London, 2013) Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access (University Press of Kentucky, 2013) Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood (Rutgers University Press, 2012) 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Rutgers University Press,