The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) reviews Black and White Cinema by Winston Wheeler Dixon on February 23, 2018.
“Hard as it is to believe that it has taken until now, more than half a century after monochrome film was unofficially superseded by colour, for a book-length study to be written on black-and-white cinema as a genre unto itself, it substantiates one of the many points made by Wheeler Winston Dixon in that very study: that the unique power of black-and-white film and the artistry involved in chanelling it have gone largely under-appreciated and under- recognized. In service to that point, his short – but packed to bursting – history expertly details notable films and those who created them, yet with a sense of urgency precipitated by all that has been irretrievably lost – the original cut of Orson Welles’s Magnificent Ambersons (1942), the uncut forty-two-reel version of Erich von Stroheim’s masterpiece Greed (1924) and the reshot ‘part-talkie’ release of D. W. Griffith’s Lady of the Pavements…”