Dixon, Wheeler Winston - Author Biography

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Coordinator of the Film Studies Program at UNL. With Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His newest books include A History of Horror (Rutgers University Press, 2010), Film Noir and The Cinema of Paranoia (Rutgers University Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and A Short History of Film, written with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Rutgers University Press and I. B. Tauris, 2008). As a filmmaker, Dixon’s complete films are in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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