Biography
Wheeler Winston Dixon (born March 12, 1950) is an American filmmaker and scholar. He is an expert on film history, theory and criticism. His scholarship has particular emphasis on François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, American experimental cinema and horror films. He has written extensively on numerous aspects of film, including his books A Short History of Film and A History of Horror. From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is regarded as a top reviewer of films. In addition, he is notable as an experimental American filmmaker with films made over several decades, and theMuseum of Modern Art exhibited his works in 2003. He taught at Rutgers University, The New School in New York, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and is currently the Ryan professor of film studies and English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Filmography
all 28
Movies 28
Director 25
Producer 2
Squatters (1995)
What Can I Do? (1993)
The Diaries (1986)
London Clouds (1986)
World of Mystery (1979)
UFO: Top Secret (1978)
UFO: Exclusive (1978)
Dana Can Deal (1976)
Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark (1975)
Tight Rope (1974)
Damage (1974)
Gaze (1974)
Stargrove (1974)
Numen Lumen (1974)
Serial Metaphysics (1972)
Children of Light (1969)
Wedding (1969)
Bits & Pieces (1969)
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Birth PlaceNew Brunswick, NJ, USA
Also Known AsChristopher Sereni, Wheeler Winston Dixon
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