Wheeler Winston Dixon
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Wheeler Winston Dixon in 2016
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March 12, 1950 New Brunswick, NJ, USA |
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| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
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| Subject | Film |
| Notable works |
A Short History of Film, A History of Horror Experimental films |
| Partner | Gwendolyn Audrey Foster |
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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 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 is currently the Ryan professor of film studies and English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Dixon was born in 1950 in New Brunswick, a city in New Jersey halfway between New York City and Philadelphia. He grew up partially in Connecticut. In the late 1960s, he was a member of New York's "underground" experimental film scene while working as a writer for Life magazine and Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. In 1970, he co-founded the musical group Figures of Light. In London, he participated in Arts Lab in Drury Lane, making and screening short films. Returning to the United States, he worked with an experimental Los Angeles-based video collective called TVTV. Dixon received a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1982.
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