Wheeler Winston Dixon

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Full Name	Wheeler Winston Dixon
Occupation	American filmmaker
Date Of Birth	Mar 12, 1950(1950-03-12)
Age	74
Birthplace	New Brunswick
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Pisces

Wheeler Winston Dixon Biography

Wheeler Winston Dixon is one of the most popular and richest American filmmaker who was born on March 12, 1950 in New Brunswick, Canada.

Dixon was born in 1950 in New Brunswick, a city in New Jersey halfway between New York City and Philadelphia. He grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1968. In the late 1960s, he was a member of New York’s “underground” experimental film scene while working as a writer for Life magazine and Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. In 1970, he co- founded the musical group Figures of Light. In London, he participated in Arts Lab in Drury Lane, making and screening short films. Returning to the United States, he worked with an experimental Los Angeles-based video collective called TVTV. Dixon received a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University in 1982.

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 (co- authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) and A History of Horror. From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor, along with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, 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 the Museum 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 as of May, 2020, is the James E. Ryan professor emeritus of film studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Wheeler Winston Dixon Net Worth

Wheeler Winston Dixon is one of the richest American filmmaker from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wheeler Winston Dixon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a film historian, he wrote about the moguls of the 1950s:

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(The corporate rulers of film) all figured they’d be immortal…They couldn’t envision a world where they didn’t exist. They couldn’t envision a world in which they were not the head of 20th Century Fox or the head of Columbia or the head of Paramount or the head of MGM or the head of Universal. When they died, a huge corporate scramble began.”

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Wiktor Ranked on the list of most popular American filmmaker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Wheeler Winston Dixon celebrates birthday on March 12 of every year.

In 2020, the New York Times interviewed Dixon on the new wave of horror films from Universal Studios, and why the more recent “Dark Universe” films were unsuccessful. Dixon noted that “there will be films about Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, long after we’re gone. They’ll still be mining these things. But the ones that will be effective will be made by people who are sincerely invested in the material and treat these creatures with deadly seriousness.”