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WHEELER WINSTON DIXON
is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, Professor of English at the University
of Nebraska — Lincoln, and Editor in Chief of the Quarterly Review and Film and Video.
Dixon teaches courses in film history, theory and criticism at UNL from the undergraduate
to the graduate levels, as well as advising students. During the 1960s he worked as an
experimental filmmaker in New York, then moved to Los Angeles and London in the late 60s
and early 70s to work within the film industry. He left Hollywood in 1976 after a career
as a post-production supervisor to pursue a career in academe.
Most recently, on April 11-12, 2003, he was honored with a retrospective of his films at
The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his films were acquired for the permanent
collection of the Museum, in both print and original format.
Dixon received his PhD in English from Rutgers University in 1982, and is the author
or editor of numerous books, including, most recently,
Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American
Cinema (Wallflower Press, 2003), Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the
Cinema (State University of New York Press, 2003), and
Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader (Routledge).
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