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Wheeler Dixon
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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…
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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 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.
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2019
20th Century Wallpaper
Movie Director
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1995
Squatters
Movie Director
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1993
What Can I Do?
Movie Executive Producer
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1990
Women Who Made the Movies
Movie Director
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1986
The Diaries
Movie Director
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1979
World of Mystery
Movie Director
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1979
Mysteries from the Bible
Movie Executive Producer
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1978
UFO: Exclusive
Movie Producer
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1978
Attack from Outer Space
Movie Director
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1978
Amazing World of Ghosts
Movie Director
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1978
UFO: Top Secret
Movie Director
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1976
Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London
Movie Director
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1976
Dana Can Deal
Movie Director
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1975
Tight Rope
Movie Director
- 1975
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1974
An Evening with Chris Jangaard
Movie Director
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1974
Gaze
Movie Director
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1974
Numen Lumen
Movie Director
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1974
Stargrove
Movie Director
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1972
Serial Metaphysics
Movie Director
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1972
Damage
Movie Director
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1970
London Clouds
Movie Director
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1969
The DC Five Memorial Film
Movie Director
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1969
Devotion for Travelers
Movie Director
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1969
Wedding
Movie Director
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1969
Bits & Pieces
Movie Director
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1969
Quick Constant and Solid Instant
Movie Director
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1969
Children of Light
Movie Director
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1968
Distance
Movie Director
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