Wheeler Dixon
Directing
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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movie20th Century Wallpaper
2019
Director
movieSquatters
1995
Director
The Diaries
1986
Director
movieWorld of Mystery
1979
Director
movieAttack from Outer Space
1978
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movieAmazing World of Ghosts
1978
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movieUFO: Top Secret
1978
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movieUFO: Exclusive
1978
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Tight Rope
1975
Director
Gaze
1974
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movieNumen Lumen
1974
Director
Stargrove
1974
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movieSerial Metaphysics
1972
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Damage
1972
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Wedding
1969
Director
Distance
1968
Director
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What Can I Do?
1993
Executive Producer
movieMysteries from the Bible
1979
Executive Producer
movieWorld of Mystery
1979
Executive Producer
movieUFO: Top Secret
1978
Producer
movieAttack from Outer Space
1978
Producer
movieUFO: Exclusive
1978
Producer