Wheeler Dixon

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.

Directed

1. Amazing World of Ghosts (1978) — Director
2. Attack from Outer Space (1978) — Director
3. The DC Five Memorial Film (1969) — Director
4. Damage (1972) — Director
5. Gaze (1974) — Director
6. Tight Rope (1975) — Director
7. An Evening with Chris Jangaard (1974) — Director
8. The Diaries (1986) — Director
9. Squatters (1995) — Director
10. Women Who Made the Movies (1990) — Director
11. UFO: Top Secret (1978) — Director
12. UFO: Exclusive (1978) — Director
13. Serial Metaphysics (1972) — Director
14. Dana Can Deal (1976) — Director
15. Un petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark (1975) — Director
16. Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London (1976) — Director
17. What Can I Do? (1993) — Director
18. Devotion for Travelers (1969) — Director
19. World of Mystery (1979) — Director
20. Mysteries from the Bible (1979) — Director
21. London Clouds (1970) — Director
22. Wedding (1969) — Director
23. Quick Constant and Solid Instant (1969) — Director
24. Numen Lumen (1974) — Director
25. Children of Light (1969) — Director
26. Bits & Pieces (1969) — Director
27. Stargrove (1974) — Director
28. 20th Century Wallpaper (2019) — Director
29. Distance (1968) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cutting Room Newsreel