Wheeler Winston Dixon

Wheeler Winston Dixon (born March 12, 1950) is an American movie director, critic, screenwriter, historian and scholar. He is an expert on movie history.Bill Goodykoontz, May 13, 2013, USA Today,  Reloading with reboots, Accessed Aug. 25, 2013, Quote = “...A reboot is when a franchise has collapsed completely...”  

From 1999 to 2014, he was co-editor, along with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is thought to be as a top reviewer of movies alongside Roger Ebert.Susan Wloszczyna, April 2, 2010, USA TODAY, How to watch your dragons: 10 fire-breathing beasts on DVD, Accessed Aug. 25, 2013, Quote = “Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)...Highly recommended by Wheeler Winston Dixon, editor of Quarterly Review of Film and Video.” In addition, he is known as a filmmaker,The New York Times, 1991, review, Women Who Made the Movies (1991) , Accessed Aug. 25, 2013, “This documentary by filmmakers Gwendolyn Foster and Wheeler Dixon pays homage to women directors and filmmakers throughout the history of cinema...” and the Museum of Modern Art exhibited his works in 2003. 

Dixon taught at Rutgers University, The New School in New York, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and is currently the James E. Ryan professor emeritus professor of movie studies and English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

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