Wheeler Dixon

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Place of Birth New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Also Known As Christopher Sereni, Wheeler Winston Dixon

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.

Known For

Director

2019
1995
Squatters

as Director

1993
What Can I Do?

as Director

1986
The Diaries

as Director

1979
World of Mystery

as Director

1979
1978
1978
1978
UFO: Top Secret

as Director

1978
UFO: Exclusive

as Director

1976
Dana Can Deal

as Director

1975
Tight Rope

as Director

1974
Gaze

as Director

1974
Numen Lumen

as Director

1974
Stargrove

as Director

1972
Damage

as Director

1972
Serial Metaphysics

as Director

1970
London Clouds

as Director

1969
1969
Wedding

as Director

1969
Children of Light

as Director

1969
Bits & Pieces

as Director

1968
Distance

as Director

Producer

1993
What Can I Do?

as Executive Producer

1979
Mysteries from the Bible

as Executive Producer

1979
World of Mystery

as Executive Producer

1978
UFO: Top Secret

as Producer

1978
1978
UFO: Exclusive

as Producer

Writer

1993
What Can I Do?

as Writer

1979
1978
UFO: Top Secret

as Writer

1978
UFO: Exclusive

as Writer

Editor

1993
What Can I Do?

as Editor

1972