Wheeler Winston Dixon is best known as a writer of film history, theory and criticism. He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dixon is the author of more than seventy articles on film theory, history and criticism, along with numerous book and video reviews, which have appeared in Cinéaste, Interview, Film Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, Films in Review, Post Script, Journal of Film and Video, Film Criticism, New Orleans Review, Classic Images, Film and Philosophy and numerous other journals. Dixon is on the editorial board of the journal Film Criticism, and was a member of the editorial board of Cinema Journal until 2003.In December 2010, he was appointed Series Editor with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster of the new book series New Perspectives on World Cinema, for the Anthem Press, London. Also in 2010, Dixon began appearing in an ongoing series of short videos entitled Frame by Frame, and in 2011 created a print blog, also entitled Frame by Frame, both discussing the history, theory, and criticism of film, digital culture, and related issues.
In the late 1960s, Dixon was part of the Experimental film scene in New York, also called the “Underground Film” movement. He later went to London, and briefly became part of the Arts Lab in Drury Lane, organizing a screening of his own work, and making short films. Back in the United States, he worked with the pioneering video group TVTV in 1976, during the group’s Los Angeles period, editing many of the episodes of their series Supervision for PBS, and later the group’s final effort, The TVTV Show, made in conjunction with NBC. He also edited a demo reel for Bill Murray, which was directed by Harold Ramis, entitled “The World’s Largest Car Wash.”
On his own, in the United States and Europe, he made numerous short and medium length experimental films. Dixon’s films have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, The British Film Institute and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
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