Publications
The Physical Media Advocate
The Physical Media Advocate is a monthly (ish) magazine dedicated to film and physical media. You can purchase the magazine in digital and paperback versions on Amazon or purchase them at the following brick and mortar shops:
CD Trader- 18926 Ventura Blvd, Tarzana California 91356
Terror Vision Museum- 9 W 40th St Savannah, Georgia 31401
Legends: Video Games, Movies, and More- 183 W State street Ste A Granby, Massachusetts 01033
Orbit DVD- 781 Haywood Rd Asheville, North Carolina 28806
Rough Cut Video- 5403 Crowchild Trail NW #132 Calgary, Alberta T3B 4Z1 Canada
Scarecrow Video- 5030 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle, Washington 98105
Videodrome- 617 N Highland Ave Atlanta, Georgia 30306
Videotheque- 4102 N Figueroa St Los Angeles, California 90031
We Luv Video- 100 E. North Loop Blvd. Austin, Texas 78751
Dr. Will Dodson
American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
Co-edited with Kristopher Woofter. University of Texas Press. 110,000 words, 2021.
Alien Invasion TV from the Cold War to QAnon: Paranoia and Conspiracy Culture on the Small Screen.
Co-authored with Siera Schubach. Bloomsbury Academic. 80,000 words. Under contract, projected publication 2025.
“‘One Thing About Time’: Woody Strode’s Late Films.”
Comebacks, Cameos, and Camp: The Return of the Aging Star, ed. Gloria Monti and Martin Shingler. Wayne State, 2025.
“Octavia E. Butler’s Weird Whiteness.”
The Weird: A Companion, ed. Carl Sederholm and Kristopher Woofter. Peter Lang, 2024.
“Welcome to Prime Time: Wes Craven’s Television Nightmares.”
A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, eds. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and John Darowski. Lexington, 2023.
“‘Why Are You Doing This?!? Flashbacks in Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part 2.”
ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven, ed. Calum Waddell. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
“Some Disturbing Obstruction: 'Lizzie' from 'The Bird’s Nest'.”
Shirley Jackson: A Companion, ed. Kristopher Woofter. Peter Lang, July 2021.
“From Freaks to Timbuctoo.: Tod Browning's 'The Devil-Doll”
Scripts From the Crypt: Tod Browning’s The Revolt of the Dead,
ed. Gary D. Rhodes. Bear Manor Media, August 2022.
“Rip It Up and Start Again: Scream 4 and Post-?”Film International Online. 9 September 2013.
“Directed by Lexi Alexander: Punisher War Zone.” Crucial 21st Century Cinema #DirectedbyWomen. Blog series curated by Barbara Ann O’Leary, 2019.
“Finding Franco: A Filmographic Odyssey.”
The Films of Jess Franco, ed. Ian Olney and Antonio Lázaro-Reboll. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, July 2018.
“The Sapphic and the Sadean Jess Franco.”
International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear, ed. Ralph Beliveau and Danny Shipka. Chicago: Intellect/U of Chicago P, December 2016.
Review of Shannon Blake Shelton, ed., Wes Craven Interviews (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019) in Monstrum 3.2 (January 2021).
“Season of the Witch and Bruiser: George A. Romero Critical Retrospective.”
Monstrum 1.1. (April 2018). 11-15.
“Dead Hands: Vampires, Zombies, and Yuppies from Reagan to Obama (and Trump).”
Film International 14.3-4 (2016): 55-71.
Review of Francois-Xavier Gleyzon, ed., David Lynch in Theory (Prague: Literaria Pragensia, 2010) in Screen 52 (2011): 415-419.
“The Archaeology of Abjection in The Exorcist.” Film International Online. 31 October 2013.
“‘Family Don’t End With Blood’ - Monstrousness and Blended Family in Supernatural”
Monstrum3.1 (October 2020). Co-authored with Huxley Bailey.
Review of Ian Olney, Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2013) in Quarterly Review of Film and Video 31.2 (2014): 194-197.
“Tod Browning’s Expressionist Bodies.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 31.3 (2014): 231-239.
“Tobe Hooper Roundtable Live,” with film host and historian Joe Bob Briggs, filmmaker and critic Scout Tafoya, and filmmakers Stan Giesea and Julius Banzon. YouTube Livestream, University of Texas Press, 2021.