Nicole Dixon on Adaptations, Casting, and Black Filmmakers

Before heading off to begin a PhD program in Screen Cultures at Northwestern University, our good sister, homegirl-scholar Nicole Dixon wrote Season 18 for our podcast Remarkable Receptions. She focused on novels adapted to movies, Black film history, and casting. You can check out the episodes here:

• The Color Purple, Again and Again 

• Streaming African American Novel Adaptations
• Samuel Jackson and the Casting Debate
• The Forever Trailer--The Underground Railroad 
• Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee, and The Birth of a Nation 
• Three Adaptations of Native Son 
• Chester Himes’s Contribution to Blaxploitation 
• Casting Black People 
• Casting Celie 
• Casting Shug Avery 

These episodes were the latest in a series of episodes on topics related to film that Dixon produced for us over the last couple of years. You can view her full catalog here: A notebook of compositions by Nicole Dixon