
Wheeler Dixon
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography

20th Century Wallpaper
Movie · Director

Squatters
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What Can I Do?
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Women Who Made the Movies
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The Diaries
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World of Mystery
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Mysteries from the Bible
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Attack from Outer Space
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Amazing World of Ghosts
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UFO: Top Secret
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UFO: Exclusive
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Dana Can Deal
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Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London
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Tight Rope
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Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark
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Gaze
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An Evening with Chris Jangaard
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Stargrove
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Numen Lumen
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Damage
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Serial Metaphysics
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London Clouds
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Devotion for Travelers
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The DC Five Memorial Film
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Children of Light
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Bits & Pieces
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Wedding
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Quick Constant and Solid Instant
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Distance
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