Wheeler Winston Dixon
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'' (co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) and ''A History of Horror''. From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor, along with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, 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 the
Museum 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 as of May 2020, is the James E. Ryan professor emeritus of
film studies at the
University of Nebraska in
Lincoln.
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