1999 - Present, Editor-in-Chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video
APPOINTMENTS HELD:
2000 - Present, Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies
1999 - 2003, Chairperson, Film Studies Major
1988 - 2003, Chairperson, Film Studies Minor
1988 Associate Professor, English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
1984 Assistant Professor, English , University of Nebraska - Lincoln
GUEST APPOINTMENTS:
1999 Summer, Visiting Professor, The University of Amsterdam
1997 Guest Programmer and Lecturer, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1997 Summer, Visiting Professor, New School University
1992 Guest Programmer, The National Film Theatre, London
1991 Guest Programmer, The Museum of the Moving Image, London
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2004-2007 Film History, Advanced Film Theory, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2003 Film History, Advanced Film Theory, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2002 Film Theory and History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2001 Film Genre, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2000 Advanced Film Theory, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1999 Film History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1998 The Films of Jean-Luc Godard, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1996 African and Asian Cinema, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1996 Experimental Cinema of the 1960s, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1994 Third World and African Cinema, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1993 Twentieth Century Fiction, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1993 Film Theory and Criticism, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1993 Graduate Seminar in Critical Theory, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1992 Graduate Seminar: Studies in Film, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1991 Graduate Course: Film Directors, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1990 Graduate Course: Films of Jean Renoir, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1989 Women Filmmakers; Film Industry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1988 American Film: The 1940s, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1987 Film Noir, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1984 Introduction to Film History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
TEACHING AWARDS:
Mortar Board Professor, February 2003.
College of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Teaching; Spring, 1993.
Recognition Award for Contributions to Students, awarded
by the UNL Parents Association and the UNL Teaching Council, 1990 - 1991;
1991 - 1992; 1992 - 1993; 1993 - 1994; 1994 - 1995; 1995 - 1996; 1996-1997
(Special Recognition); 1999-2000; 2002; 2006; special ten-year award for
continued excellence.
GUEST APPOINTMENTS:
1999 Guest Lecturer, The University of Amsterdam; Six Invited Lectures on Digital New Media Theory; June 7- July 16, 1999.
1997 Guest Programmer and Lecturer, The Museum of Modern Art, New York."The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema." Four Lecture/Screenings, November 7-9, 1997.
1997 Guest Lecturer, Summer 1997: The New School for Social Research,New York, NY. "The Domain of the Visual: Digital Technology, Spectacle and Excess in Post-Modern Cinema and Television." Ten lectures between June 16 and July 16, 1997.
1992 Guest Programmer on "Dystopian Science Fiction Films," a sixteen- part retrospective series of films at The National Film Theatre of the British Film Institute, London, England, April 1-29, 1992.
1991 Guest Programmer and Lecturer on the films of Terence Fisher
and Freddie Francis, The National Film Theatre of the British Film Institute,
and The Museum of the Moving Image, London, England, December 2-6, 1991.
BOOK SERIES EDITORSHIP:
State University of New York Press, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video Series, 1995 - 2008; to create a new series on cinema/video theory and practice. Published volumes thus far include: Dancing on the White Page Black Women Entertainers Writing Autobiography by Kwakiutl L. Dreher (2008), Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (2006); Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script, Gerald Duchovnay, ed. (2004); Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen, Murray Pomerance, ed. (2004); Straight Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema by Wheeler Winston Dixon (2003); Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas: From Post-Revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamérica by Susan Dever (2003); Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof by Stephen Buhler (2001); Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos, eds. (2001); Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in the Film at the End of the Twentieth Century, edited by Murray Pomerance (2001); Production Theory of the Hollywood Cinema by Jean-Pierre Geuens (2000); Structures of Desire: Cultural Change in British Cinema 1940-1955 by Tony Williams (2000); The Films of Fred Zinnemann: Critical Perspectives, Arthur Nolletti, Jr., Editor (1999); PostNegritude Visual and Literary Culture by Mark A. Reid (1997); The Phantom of the Cinema by Lloyd Michaels (1998); Living Pictures: Origins of the Motion Picture by Deac Rossell (1998); The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Commercial Cinema, 1930-1943 by Marcia Landy (1998); Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey and Ingeborg Von Zadow, eds. (1998; in conjunction with the SUNY series on Feminist Criticism and Theory, Michelle A. Massé, editor); Redirecting the Gaze: Gender, Theory and Cinema in the Third World, edited by Diana Robin and Ira Jaffe (1998); The Cinema of Tony Richardson by James M. Welsh and John C. Tibbets (1999); Production Theory of the Hollywood Cinema by Jean-Pierre Geuens (2000); Structures of Desire: Cultural Change in British Cinema 1940-1955 by Tony Williams (2000); Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the end of the Twentieth Century, Murray Pomerance, ed. (2000); and The Films of Harold Pinter, Stephen Gale, ed. (2001).
Hollywood Directors. Forthcoming, Wallflower Press.
Film Noir and The Cinema of Paranoia. Forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press.
Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 2006. 220 pages.
Film and Television After 9/11. Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. 262 pages.
The Transparency
of Spectacle. State University of New York Press, (State University of New
York Press, Series in Postmodern Culture)1998. 223 pages.
The Exploding
Eye: A Re-Visionary History of American Experimental Cinema. (State University
of New York Press, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video Series); 1997. 250 pages.
The Films
of Jean-Luc Godard. (State University of New York Press, Cultural Studies
in Cinema/Video Series); 1997. 290 pages.
It Looks at
You: The Returned Gaze in Cinema. (State University of New York Press, Series
in Postmodern Culture); 1995. 238 pages.
Re-Viewing
British Cinema 1900-1992: Essays and Interviews. (State of New York University
Press); 1994. 288 pages.
The Early Film Criticism
of François Truffaut. (Indiana University Press); 1993. 177 pages.
ARTICLES AUTHORED
"Hyperconsumption in Reality Television: The Transformation of the Self Through Televisual Consumerism," forthcoming, Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
"Vanishing Point: The Last Days of Film," Senses of Cinema 43 (2007) , at <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/07/43/last-days-film.html>.
"Bennett Miller: An Interview," Post Script 26.1 (Fall 2006): 3-12.
"A Cinema of Violence: The Films of D. Ross Lederman," Film Criticism 30.3 (Spring, 2006): 38-65.
"Mike Leigh, Topsy-Turvy and The Excavation of Memory," Senses of Cinema 37 (2005), at <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/37/topsy_turvy.html>.
Filmmaking 'for the fun of it': An Interview with Jack Hill," Film Criticism 29.3 (Spring 2005): 46-59.
"An Interview with Monte Hellman," Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.3 (2005): 263-275.
"An Interview with Takashi Shimizu," (with Shoichi Gregory Kamei, translator),Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.1 (January-March 2005): 1-16.
"The Golden Years: An Interview with Ronald Neame," Post Script 23.2 (Winter /Spring 2004): 3 -18.
"Teaching Film After 9/11," Cinema Journal 43.2 (Winter 2004): 115-118.
"The Three Film Versions of The Great Gatsby: A Vision Deferred," Literature /Film Quarterly 31.3 (2003): 287-294.
"In Praise of Godard's In Praise of Love," Film Criticism 27.2 (Spring 2003): 18-39.
"A Conversation with Albert Maysles," Quarterly Review of Film and Video 20.3 (2003): 177-192.
"The Man Who Set The Earth on Fire: An Interview with Val Guest," Classic Images 333 (March 2003): 70-74.
"Budd Boetticher: The Last Interview," Film Criticism 26.3 (Spring 2002): 52-72.
"Robert Downey, Sr.: The Preston Sturges of the 1960s," Popular Culture Review 13.1 (January 2002): 69-76.
"No More Excuses: An Interview with Robert Downey Sr.," Post Script 21.1 (Fall 2001): 3-13.
"An Interview with Jamie Babbit," Post Script 21.1 (Fall 2001): 14-23.
"British Film Comedy In the New Millennium: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, and Guest House Paradiso," Popular Culture Review 12.1 (February 2001): 115-126.
"Compromise and Triumph: The Films of Paul Robeson," Classic Images 305 (November 2000): 67-72.
"The New Horizon of the Moving Image: Digital Production in the 21st Century," Popular Culture Review 11.2 (Summer 2000): 75-84.
"John O'Shea and the Tradition of the New Zealand Feature Cinema," Popular Culture Review (February 2000) 11.1: 1-12.
"The Portable Opera Comes of Age: Philip Glass's Monsters of Grace," Popular Culture Review 10.2 (August 1999): 33-42.
"The Man Who Created The Avengers: An Interview with Brian Clemens," Classic Images 287 (May 1999): C18-20, 33-35.
"When I'm 63: An Interview with Jonathan Miller," Popular Culture Review 10.1 (February 1999): 1-11.
"Performativity in 1960s American Experimental Cinema: The Body as Site of Ritual and Display," Film Criticism 23.1 (Fall 1998): 48-60.
"The Invisible Man, Secret Agent, and The Prisoner: Three British Teleseries of the 1950s and 60s," Classic Images 282 (December 1998): C8-9.
"The Colonial Vision of Edgar Wallace," Journal of Popular Culture 32. 1 (Summer 1998): 121- 139.
"The Auteur as Elegist: Richard Carlson's Riders to the Stars, Popular Culture Review 9.2 (August, 1998): 31-44.
"For Ever Godard: Notes on Godard's For Ever Mozart," Literature /Film Quarterly 26.2 (1998): 82-88.
"The Commercial Instinct: New Elstree Studios and The Danziger Brothers, 1956 -1961, " Popular Culture Review 9.1 (February 1998): 31-43.
"An Interview with Bryan Forbes," Classic Images 270 (December 1997): 34-40.
"Moving the Center: Notes Towards the Decentering of Eurocentric and American Cinema," Popular Culture Review 8.1 (February 1997): 3-16.
"The Curious Case of John H. Collins," Classic Images 261
(March 1997): C8-11.
"Surviving the Studio System: The Films of Actor/Director Alex Nicol,"
Classic Images 255 (September 1996): 28-31.
"Interview with Ralph Thomas: British Film Director " Classic
Images 249 (March 1996): 34,36,38,40,42-43.
"Gender Approaches to Directing the Horror Film: Women Filmmakers and
the Mechanisms of the Gothic," Popular Culture Review 7.1 (February
1996): 121-134.
"Ida Lupino: In the Director's Chair," Classic Images 248 (February,
1996): 14-16, 18, 20, 22.
"Maureen Blackwood, Isaac Julien and the Sankofa Collective, "Film
Criticism 20.1/2 (Fall-Winter 1995-96): 131-143.
"The Digital Domain: Image Mesh and Manipulation in Hyperreal Cinema/Video,"
Film Criticism 20.1/2 (Fall-Winter l995-96): 55-66.
"The Site of the Body in Torture/The Sight of the Tortured Body: Contemporary
Incarnations of Graphic Violence in the Cinema and the Vision of Edgar Allan
Poe," Film and Philosophy 1.1 (1994): 62-70.
"Femmes Vivantes and the Marginalized Feminine 'Other' in the Films
of Reginald LeBorg," Cinefocus 3 (1995), 34-41.
"Twilight of the Empire: The Films of Roy Ward Baker," in three
parts. Part One: Classic Images 234 (December 1994), 14 -16, 18, 34; Part
Two: Classic Images 235 (January 1995), 22, 26, 28, 30; Part Three: Classic
Images 236 (February 1995), C12, C14, C16, C18.
"Act of Violence and the Early Films of Fred Zinnemann," Film
Criticism 28.3/29.1 (Spring/Fall 1994), 30-45.
"It Looks At You: Notes on the 'Look Back' in Cinema," special
issue on "Contemporary Directions in Film Theory" (Stephen Prince,
Guest Editor), Post Script 13.1 (Fall 1993), 77-87.
"The Marginalized Vision of Montgomery Tully," Classic Images
224 (February 1994), C8-10, 12, 56-57 (Part One); Classic Images 225 (March
1994), 52-56 (Part Two).
"Alice Guy: Forgotten Pioneer of the Narrative Cinema," New Orleans
Review 19.3/4, (Fall/Winter 1992), 7-15.
"The Early Films of Andy Warhol," Classic Images 214 (April 1993),
38-40.
"An Interview with John Kricfalusi," Film Criticism 17.1 (Fall
1992), 38-49.
"The Long Day Closes: An Interview with Terence Davies," Cineaste
19. 2/3, 20-23.
"Shooting Cape Fear: An Interview with Freddie Francis at the National
Film Theatre, London," Classic Images 208 (October 1992), 16-20.
"Dystopian Science Fiction," NFT Monthly, April 1992, 8-13.
"The Other Side of Vincent Price: An Interview," Classic Images
204 (June 1992), C12-15, 35.
"The Doubled Image: Montgomery Tully's Boys in Brown and the Independent
Frame Process," Film Criticism 16.1 /2, Fall-Winter 1991-1992, 18-32.
"Cinematic Interpretations of the Works of H. P. Lovecraft," Lovecraft
Studies 22/23 (Fall 1990), 3-9.
"The Early Film Criticism of François Truffaut," New Orleans
Review 16.1 (Spring 1989), 5-32.
"Urban Black Music in the Late 1980s: The 'Word' as Cultural Signifier,"
The Midwest Quarterly 30.2 (Winter 1989), 229-241.
"An Interview with Roger Corman," Post Script 8.1 (Fall 1988),
2-15.
"William Inge as Walter Gage: Bus Riley's Back in Town," Literature
Film Quarterly 16.2 (Spring 1988), 101-106.
"H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Reevaluation," West Virginia University
Philological Papers 34 (Fall 1988), 102-110.
"Film and Literature: The Narrative Connection," Thousand Oaks
Journal 1.1 (Fall 1987), 35-38.
"An Appreciation: The 'B' Western," Classic Images 149 (November
1987), Section "C," 10-12.
"Cinema History and the 'B' Tradition," New Orleans Review 14.2
(Summer 1987), 65-71.
"The Performing Self in Filmed Shakespearean Drama," Shakespeare
Bulletin 5.4 (July/August 1987), 18-19.
"The Romance of Crime," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Kent
State Conference on Film, Dr. Douglass Radcliff-Umstead, ed., Kent State
University, OH (Spring 1987), 70-74.
"Financing for the Independent Filmmaker: Sources and Strategies,"
Journal of Film and Video 38.1 (Winter 1986), 23-34.
"How Does the Independent Filmmaker Deal with Hollywood?" International
Journal of Instructional Media 12.4, 321-330.
"Cinematic Adaptations of the Works of Sinclair Lewis," Proceedings
of the 1985 Sinclair Lewis Centennial, Dr. Michael Connaughton, ed. (Spring
1986), 191-200.
"The Child as Demon in Films Since 1961," Films in Review 37.2
(February 1986), 78-83.
"François Truffaut: A Life In Film," Films in Review 36.6/7
(June/July 1986), 331-336 (Part One); and 36.8/9 (August/September 1985)
413-417 (Part Two).
"The 'B' Film in the Societal Vanguard," National Traditions in
Motion Pictures: Proceedings of the Third Annual Kent State Conference on
Film, Dr. Douglass Radcliff-Umstead, ed., Kent State University, OH (Spring
1985), 10-13.
"The Camera Vision: Narrativity and Film," New Orleans Review
12.2 (Summer 1985), 57-61.
"PRC: The Unknown Studio," Films in Review 35.7 (August/September
1984), 405-410.
"The Cinema: An Index of Directors 1929-78," AFTA 1.2 (Summer
1978), 140-149.
"In Defense of Roger Corman," The Velvet Light Trap 16 (Fall 1976),
11-15.
Essay, "Tomorrowland: Science Fiction Television in the 1950s," Science Fiction Television: An Essential Reader, J.P. Telotte, editor. Forthcoming, University of Kentucky Press, 2007.
Essay, "The End of Hammer," British Cinema in the 1970s, Robert Shail, editor. Forthcoming, British Film Institute Press, London.
Essay, "Night World," in City That Never Sleeps, Murray Pomerance, editor. Forthcoming, Rutgers UP.
Essay, "House of Strangers: The Family in Film Noir," A Family Affair, Murray Pomerance, editor. Forthcoming, Wallflower Press.
Essay, "Brokeback Mountain," in 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Stephen Jay Schneider, editor. London: Cassell Illustrated, 2006: 946-47
Essay, "The Great Directors: Roger Corman," Senses of Cinema 38 (January-March 2006), at <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/06/corman.html>.
Essay, "The Endless Embrace of Hell: Hopelessness and Betrayal in Film Noir," Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance, editor. Rutgers University Press, 2006: 38-56.
Essay, "François Truffaut's Les Mistons," Senses of Cinema 38 (January-March 2006), at <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/06/38/mistons.html>.
Essays on Joseph Losey (384-386), Michael Carreras (90-91), Arthur Crabtree (125-126), Sidney Furie (219-220), Wendy Toye (588-590), Peter Gidal (224-225), Thornton Freeland (213-214), Brian Gibson (224), Henry Koster (350, co-authored with Geoff Brown) and Don Levy (378, co-authored with Geoff Brown) in Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion, Robert Murphy, ed. BFI Publishing, London, 2006.
Essay, "Voyage to The Beginning of the World," Senses of Cinema 37 (2005), at <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/05/37/voyage_beginning_world.html>.
Essay, "The European Cinema, All Movie Guide web site, <http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=23:61>. August 15, 2005.
Essay, "The Moving Image in Crisis: Disaster and Memory" in Stars: The Film Reader. Lucy Fischer and Marcia Landy, eds. Routledge, 2004: 267 - 281.
Interviews with Robert Downey, Sr. and Jamie Babbit in Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script, Gerald Duchovnay, ed. State University of New York Press, 2004: 129-142; 153-165.
Essay, "How Will I Get My Opium?': Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship," Bad: Evil, Nefariousness, Immorality and Slime on the Screen. Murray Pomerance, ed. State University of New York Press, 2004: 126-141.
Essay on "Teaching Gothic Literature Through Filmic Adaptations, " Approaches to Teaching Gothic Literature, Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller, eds. Modern Language Association of American Press, 2003: 244-251.
Essays on Terence Fisher (224), Freddie Francis (234), Hammer Films Ltd. (282-283), The Danzigers (160-161), The Independent Frame Method (334), and Montgomery Tully (687), The Encyclopedia of British Cinema, Brian McFarlane, ed. London: Methuen-British Film Institute, 2003.
Essay on Roger Corman, Contemporary North American Film Directors, Second Edition, Yoram Allon, Del Cullen and Hannah Patterson, eds. Wallflower Press, London, 2002: 104-107.
Essay on "Twenty-Five Reasons Why It's All Over," The End of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties. Jon Lewis, editor. New York University Press, 2001: 356-366.
Essay on "The Eternal Summer of Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey's Accident," The Films of Harold Pinter; Stephen S. Gale, ed., State University of New York Press, 2001: 27-37.
Essay on Edgar Wallace, Modern British Literature, Second Edition, Vol. III. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000: 352-353.
Essay "Transferring the Novel's Gothic Sensibilities to the Screen," Readings on Frankenstein (Don Nardo, Editor), Greenhaven Press, 2000: 115-128.
Essay on "Persona in the Context of 1960s European Cinema," in Ingmar Bergman's Persona, a critical anthology for Cambridge Film Handbooks; Andrew Horton, General Editor; Lloyd Michaels, Volume Editor, Cambridge UP, 2000: 44-61.
Essays on William Augustus Wellman and Shirley Booth, in American National Biography (ANB); John A. Garraty, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press / American Council of Learned Societies, 24 volumes, 1999. Essay on Booth in Vol. 3, 200-201; Wellman in Vol. 23, 12-14.
Essay on "The Early Films of Fred Zinnemann," in the anthology The Films of Fred Zinnemann, a critical anthology edited by Arthur Nolletti, Jr. State University of New York Press, 1999: 37-53.
Essay on "Re-Visioning the Western: Code, Myth and Genre in Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch", in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, a critical anthology for Cambridge Film Handbooks Series; Andrew Horton, General Editor; Stephen Prince, Volume Editor, 1999: 155-174.
Essay on Halfway House by Basil Dearden, in Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Postwar British Film Culture; Tim O' Sullivan, Paul Wells and Alan Burton, eds. London: Flicks Books, 1997: 108-115.
The Encyclopedia of Film; James Monaco and James Pallot, eds. New York: Perigee/Putnam, 1991. Essays on: Jean Renoir (449-450), Jean Cocteau (120-121), Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (519), and Dorothy Arzner (25-26). Also available as a computer data base from Baseline, via Mead Data Central's Nexis Service.
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers; Vol. 1, Second Edition, revised; London: St. James Press, 1990; Nick Thomas, ed. Essays on The Bank Dick (76-78) and Horror of Dracula (265-266).
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers; Vol. 2, Second Edition, London: St. James Press, 1991; Nick Thomas, ed. Essay on Stephen Frears (304-306).
"The Films of Frankenstein," Approaches to Frankenstein,
Dr. Stephen C. Behrendt, ed.; The Modern Language Association Press, 1990;
166-179.
Beyond the Stars: Stock Characters in American Popular Film; Bowling Green
State University Popular Press, 1990. Dr. Paul Loukides and Dr. Linda K.
Fuller, eds. Essay on "Archetypes of the Heavy in Classical Hollywood
Cinema;" 201-211.
St. James Film Encyclopedia; St. James Press, London; Greg S. Faller, ed.,
Vol. 4, 1988. Essays on: James Bernard (43-44), Thea Von Harbou (445-446),
Jimmy Sangster (381), Georges Auric (26-27), Ub Iwerks (225-227), Floyd
Crosby (100-101), Freddie Francis (153-155), Georges Perinal (329-330),
Lorenzo Semple, Jr. (393-394), and Georges Delerue (114-117).
Encyclopedia of American Humorists; Dr. Steven Gale, ed. (Garland Press)
February, 1988. Essay on Donald Barthelme, 28-32.
Contributor to The Arts Magazine of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
1992 - 1993.
Editor-in-Chief, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 1999 - present.
Member, Editorial Board, Film Criticism; 1991 - present.
Member, Editorial Board, Literature / Film Quarterly; 1997 - 2005.
Member, Editorial Board, Popular Culture Review; 1997 - 2003.
Member, Editorial Board, Cinema Journal; 1997 - 2003.
Member, Advisory Board, The Journal of Popular British Cinema; 1996 2002.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Film and Video; 1996 - 2000.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Sexuality; 1991
- 1993.
"Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films by Ira Jaffe," (Review), forthcoming, Choice.
"Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks by Robin Blaetz, ed.", (Review), forthcoming, Choice.
"Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow: Color Design in the 1930s by Scott Higgins," (Review), forthcoming, Choice.
"The British Musical Film by John Mundy," (Review), forthcoming, Choice.
"Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema by Matthew Sweet," (Review) forthcoming, Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
"The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television by DavidWeinstein," (Review) forthcoming, Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
"Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection by Vanessa Toulmin," (Review), Choice (October 2007): 290.
"Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema, edited by Ted Perry," (Review), Choice (October 2007): 289.
"Cartographic Cinema by Tom Conley," (Review), Choice (August 2007): 2114.
"Filmosophy by Daniel Frampton," (Review), Choice (June 2007): 1762.
"Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood by Karen Mahar," (Review), Choice (June 2007): 1762.
"Pornography: Film and Culture, edited by Peter Lehman," (Review), Choice (March 2007): 1178.
"One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema by George Melnyk," (Review), Quarterly Review of Film and Video 24.1 (January 2007): 97-105.
"Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures by Alexander Nemerov," (Review) Film Quarterly 60.2 (Winter 2006-2007): 62-63.
Participant, Senses of Cinema World Poll 2005, 2006. <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/07/42/2006-world-poll-2.html#Dixon>.
"Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalogue of Video Art and Artist Interviews by Kate Horsfield and Lucas Hilderbrand," (Review), Choice (July 2006): 1965.
"Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and The Sea by Steven Dillon," (Review) Film Quarterly 59.3 (March, 2006): 70-71.
"The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood by David Thomson," (Review), Choice (May 2005): 1596.
"Film, Form, and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics by Michael O'Pray," (Review) Choice (January 2005): 860.
Reviews for All Movie Guide website, at <http://www.allmovie.com/>, all published 2005. Reviews on: What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Il Grido, The Passenger, Au Hasard Balthazar, L'Argent, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Tristana, La Femme Infidèle, Merci Pour le Chocolat, The Tramp, Easy Street, The Rink, The Floorwalker, Le Testament d'Orphée, Passage to Marseilles, The Comancheros, Two Women, I Can't Sleep, Intervista, The White Sheik, Napoléon, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Masculin/Feminin, Le Petit Soldat, Vivre Sa Vie, Blue, Lacombe Lucien, May Fools, Le Voyage Dans la Lune, Autumn Tale, A Tale of Winter, A Tale of Springtime, A Summer's Tale, Small Change, Confidentially Yours, L'Innocente, Le Notti Bianche, Senso and Death in Venice.
"The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood by David Thomson," (Review), Choice (May 2005): 1596.
"A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany by Frances Guerin," (Review) Choice (October 2005): 300.
"The Cinema of Central Europe, edited by Peter Hames," (Review), Choice (October 2005): 299.
"Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces by Andrew Moor," (Review) Choice (November 2005): 492.
"Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film and Women by Ann Kibbey," (Review) Choice (September 2005): 109.
"Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age by Dorothy G. and Jerome L. Singer," (Review) Choice (July/August 2005): 2068.
Essay on Mike Newell's The Good Father (1985) as liner notes for the DVD release, through Homevision Entertainment, Summer, 2005.
"Once Upon a Time in the Italian West by Howard Hughes," (Review) Choice (April 2005): 1407.
Essay on Barbet Schroeder's More (1970), as liner notes for the DVD release, through Homevision Entertainment, Spring, 2005.
"The Medieval Hero on Screen, edited by Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray, " (Review) Choice (March, 2005): 1235.
Essay on Claude Chabrol's Une affair de femmes (aka Story of Women, 1988), as liner notes for the DVD release, through Homevision Entertainment, Summer, 2004.
"Disney TV by J. P. Telotte," (Review) Quarterly Review of Film and Video 21.3: 270-271.
"The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall by Eve Golden, with Kim Kendall," (Review) Film Quarterly 57.3 (Spring, 2004): 69.
Essay on Bo Widerberg's Lust och fägring stor (aka All Things Fair, 1995), as liner notes for the DVD release, through Homevision Entertainment, April 2004.
Essay on Joseph Losey's Time Without Pity (1957), as liner notes for the DVD release, through Homevision Entertainment, March 2004.
"A Purchase in the White Botanica: The Collected Poetry of Piero Heliczer," (Review) Prairie Schooner 78.1 (Spring 2004): 195-201.
"Trashfilm Roadshows: On the Road With Subversive Movies by Johannes Schonherr," Film Quarterly 57.2 (Winter 2003-2004): 63.
Essay on Jonathan Miller's 1966 BBC version of Alice in Wonderland, as liner notes for the American DVD release, through Homevision Entertainment /BBC America, Winter 2003.
"American Silent Film: Discovering Marginalized Voices, edited by Gregg Bachman and Thomas J. Slater," Film Quarterly 57.1 (Fall, 2003): 67.
"British Film Institute Film Classics, Volumes I and II, Edward Buscombe and Rob White, eds.," Quarterly Review of Film and Video 20.4 (2003): 323.
"Global Hollywood by Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria and Richard Maxwell,"Quarterly Review of Film and Video 19.4 (2002): 361-363.
"The Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors, edited by Yoram Allon, Del Cullen and Hannah Patterson, with an introduction by Nick James," (Review), Film Quarterly 55.2 (Winter 2001 -2002): 69-70.
"Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed by Cliff Goodwin," (Review), Film Quarterly 54.4 (Summer 2001): 69.
"An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel," (Review), Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18.3 (2001): 333-335.
"Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé, edited by Andy Masaki Bellows and MarinaMcDougall, with Brigitte Berg," (Review), Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18.2 (2001): 227-229.
"Moving Image Production in the New Millennium," PMLA Special Millennium Issue 115.7 (December, 2000): 2052.
"Five Questions on Film Practice for the Millennium," Millennium Film Journal 35/36 (Fall, 2000): 43-44.
"Film History: An Introduction (Bordwell and Thompson); Don't Tell Dad: A Memoir (Fonda) ; and Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in the American Cinema 1930-1934 (Doherty); Andy Warhol, Poetry and Gossip in the 1960s (Wolf)" (Reviews) forthcoming, Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
"Moving Image Production in the New Millennium," PMLA Millennium Special Issue, forthcoming, 2000.
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"Rainer Werner Fassbinder, edited by Laurence Kardish, in collaboration with Juliane Lorenz" (Review), Film Quarterly 51.4 (Summer 1998): 56-68.
"Queen of the "B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera, Annette Kuhn, ed." (Review), forthcoming, Literature/Film Quarterly.
"The Unofficial Edgar Wallace Web Page," (Brief Essay), The Crimson Circle 114 (February 1998): 5-7.
"Young Film Fans Flock to Film Forum to See Classics," (Brief Essay), Classic Images 267 (September, 1997): 5.
"Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945; Jan-Christopher Horak, ed. , " (Review), Film Quarterly 50.4 (Summer, 1997): 57-59.
"The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard and The Phantom Empire by Geoffrey O'Brien" (Review), Film Quarterly 50.4 (Summer 1997): 54-55.
"Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence and Oppositionality, Michael T. Martin, ed." (Review), Film Criticism 21.2 (Winter 1996-97): 62-63.
"Film and Video on the Internet: The Top 500 Sites by Bert Deivert and Dan Harries" (Review), Film Criticism 21.2 (Winter 1996-97): 63-65.
"Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance by Virginia Wright Wexman," (Review), Journal of Film and Video 48.4 (Winter 1996-1997): 56-57.
"Ida Lupino: A Biography by William Donati, " (Review), Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 27 (October 1996): 89-90.
"Journals Mid-Fifties by Allen Ginsberg; Gordon Ball, ed. " (Review), Prairie Schooner 70.4 (Winter 1996): 188-189.
"The Films of Joseph Losey by James Palmer and Michael Riley," (Review), Film Quarterly 50.1 (Fall 1996): 51-52.
"Auteur/Provocateur: The Films of Denys Arcand, André
Loiselle and Brian McIlroy eds." (Review), Film Quarterly 50.1 (Fall
1996): 39-40.
"The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism and the Movies,
by Ray Carney," (Review), Journal of Film and Video 48.1/2 (Spring
/ Summer 1996): 88-94.
"Notes for the Further Study of Edgar Wallace," (Brief Essay)
The Crimson Circle 109 (February 1996): 4-5.
"Points of Resistance: Women, Power and Politics in The New York Avant-Garde
Cinema 1943-1971 by Lauren Rabinovitz" (Review), Journal of Film and
Video 47.4 (Winter 1995-96): 46-48.
"Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of
China and Japan, Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser, eds." (Review),
Journal of Film and Video 47.4 (Winter 1995-96): 52-54.
"Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre and History, Arthur Nolletti,
Jr. and David Desser, eds." (Review), Literature/Film Quarterly 24.1
(1996): 105-108.
"A Personal/Political Artist: The Hungarian Cinema of Márta
Mészáros by Catherine Portuges," (Review), in Literature/Film
Quarterly 23.4 (1995): 293-294.
"The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace; the new critical edition from
Oxford UP, edited by David Glover," (Review) Prairie Schooner 69.4
(Winter 1995), 160.
"They Can Kill You, But They Can't Eat You: Lessons From the Front
by Dawn Steel," (Review) Film Quarterly 49.1 (Fall, 1995), 65.
"Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment by Jacques
Lacan," (Review), Journal of Film and Video 46.2 (Summer, 1994), 58-59.
"A Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds by Jim Hoberman,"
(Review), Journal of Popular Film and Television 21.4 (Winter, 1994), 185.
"American Jewish Filmmakers by David Desser and Lester Friedman,"
(Review) Film Criticism 19.2 (Winter 1994-1995), 108-113.
"Pop Art and Consumer Culture by Christin J. Mamiya," (Review),
The Journal of American Culture 17.3 (Fall, 1994), 87-88.
"The Euro-American Cinema by Peter Lev"(Review) Film Quarterly
48.1 (Fall 1994), 62-63.
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Preacher Collins, eds." (Review), Film Quarterly 47.3 (Spring 1994),
54.
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46.
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ed." (Review), Cineaste 20.1 (1993), 51.
"Women in Film: An International Guide, Annette Kuhn and Susannah Radstone,
eds." (Review), Literature / Film Quarterly 21.3 (1993), 235-236.
"Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry by Duncan J.
Petrie" (Review), Film Quarterly 46.4 (Summer, 1993), 35-36.
"Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman by Barry Keith
Grant" (Review), Film Quarterly 46.4 (Summer, 1993), 59.
"Femmes Fatales by Mary Ann Doane" (Review), Prairie Schooner
67.2 (Summer, 1993), 151-154.
"The Press: Observed and Projected, Deac Rossell, ed." (Review),
Post Script 12.1 (Fall, 1992), 61-63.
"Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema, Lester Friedman,
ed." (Review), Film Criticism 17.1 (Fall, 1992), 60-65.
"British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960 by Marcia Landy"
(Review), Film Criticism 17.1 (Fall, 1992), 65-69.
"Black Cinema Treasures by G. William Jones" (Review), Cineaste
19. 2/3, 89.
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of Nebraska, Lincoln (December/January 1992/1993), 28.
"Edward II by Derek Jarman," (Review) The Arts Magazine of the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln (October/November 1992), 12-13.
"Now You See It: Studies on Gay and Lesbian Film by Richard Dyer"
(Review), Journal of the History of Sexuality 3.2 (October 1992), 348-350.
"The Fever by Wallace Shawn" (Review), Prairie Schooner 66.3 (Fall,
1992),126-129.
"French Films: Texts and Contexts, Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau,
eds." (Review), Journal of Film and Video 44. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 1992),
119-121.
"Comic Books and America: 1945-1954 by William W. Savage, Jr."
(Review), Prairie Schooner 66.2 (Summer 1992), 124-127.
"Seeing Films Politically by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh" (Review), Film
Criticism 16.1 /2, (Fall-Winter 1991-1992), 131-134.
"Psychoanalysis and Cinema, E. Ann Kaplan, ed." (Review), Film
Criticism 14. 3 (Spring 1991), 72-75.
"Materialist Film by Peter Gidal," (Review), Prairie Schooner
64.4 (Winter 1990), 121-124.
"Hitler's Fall: The Newsreel Witness, K.R.M. Short and Stephan Dolezel,
eds.," (Review), Film Criticism (Fall 1990) 14.1, 37-39.
"The Life and Death of Andy Warhol by Victor Bockris" (Review),
Prairie Schooner 64.3 (Fall 1990), 122-126.
"The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché" (Review), Prairie Schooner
62. 1 (Spring 1988), 127-129.
"Dana Polan's Power and Paranoia" (Review), Prairie Schooner,
(Winter 1987) 61.4, 114-116.
"In A Dark Room in Modesto, California," (Poem), Plainsongs 7.3
(Spring 1987), 16.
"On Dragnet," Movie Collector's World 261 (April 3, 1987), 14-15.
"Point of View," Spiral 9 (Fall 1986), 4-6.
"Margaret Plaganis at the Hartford Civic Center," East Village
Eye 5.41 (March 1984), 36.
"Performance," Andy Warhol's Interview 1.2 (1969), 2.
"Spirits of the Dead," Andy Warhol's Interview 1.1 (1969), 35.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS:
Maude Hammond Fling Faculty Research Fellowship, for "A Short History of Film," December, 2006; $1,500.
University of Nebraska Lincoln ORCA (Outstanding Research and Creative Achievement Award), 2006; $3,500.
Peter C. Rollins Annual Book Award of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, 2006, for Lost in The Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood (Southern Illinois UP, 2005), February 2006.
Grant-In-Aid from the John C. and Nettie V. David Memorial Trust to support the writing of the book Lost in The Fifties; Fall, 2003; $6,500.
Arts and Sciences College ORCA (Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award), 2003; $1,000.
Research Council, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "The Feature Film in New Zealand," Summer, 1999; $6,500.
Southwest Alternate Media Project Independent Production Fund Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Summer 1993, for completion of What Can I Do?; $5,000.
Layman Foundation Award, 1993-1994, for the production of the feature film What Can I Do?; $18,000.
George Holmes Faculty Fellowship to produce The Women Who Made the Movies, Summer 1989; $5,500.
Research Council Grant-in-Aid, to produce The Women Who Made the Movies; Summer 1989; $2,500.
Research Council Grant, Coming Attractions (Film); Summer 1987, $2,500.
Interdisciplinary Arts Fellowship Program Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, through DiverseWorks and the Southwest Alternate Media Project; Summer, 1987, for That's Different: Tales of Nebraska (with Gwendolyn Foster), $1,500.
Independent Filmmaker Grant, Southwest Alternate Media Project, Summer 1985, $5,000; Summer 1986, $3,500.
Research Council Grant, "The Films of Freddie Francis," University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Winter 1984-85, $2,500.
New Jersey State Arts Council Grant; Filmmaking, Summer 1972, $1,000; Summer 1982, $3,500.
Royal Film Archive of Belgium Grant; Filmmaking; Summer 1974, $1,500.
Museum of Modern Art Retrospective: "The Films of Wheeler Winston Dixon," including Serial Metaphysics (1972), The DC Five Memorial Film (1969), Quick Constant and Solid Instant (1969), Wedding (1969), Damage (1974), Numen Lumen (1974), Dana Can Deal (1974), Bits and Pieces (1969), Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London (1974), The Warm Midwestern Bedroom Does Not Matter (1974), Distance (1968), Un Petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, The Light Shining Over the Dark (1974), An Evening with Chris Jangaard (1974) and What Can I Do? (1994), with three lectures by the filmmaker, New York, New York, April 11-12, 2003.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Berkshire Conference '99, June 3-5, 1999.
The Women Who Made The Movies, City University of Hong Kong, Spring, 1999.
The Women Who Made The Movies, University of Montreal, Spring, 1999.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Michigan State University, Spring, 1999.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, March 20, 1999.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Portland State University, Portland, OR, February 26, 1999.
Coming Attractions and Serial Metaphysics, February 26, 1998; Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee 1999.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Vanier College (Quebec, Canada), May 21, 1998.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Minnesota College of Art and Design, April 24, 1998.
The Women Who Made The Movies, University of Akron, March 20, 1998.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY, March 14, 1998.
The Women Who Made The Movies, University of Richmond, November, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, University of Calgary, November, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, City College of San Francisco, August, 1997.
Four Films by Wheeler Winston Dixon, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Augustana College, April, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Texas A & M University , April, 1997.
Retrospective of the Early Films of Wheeler Winston Dixon, including Serial Metaphysics (1972), The DC Five Memorial Film (1969), Quick Constant and Solid Instant (1969), Wedding (1969), Damage (1974), Numen Lumen (1974), Stargrove (1974), Balloon Sequence from Mounier's Syndrome (1970), The Children of Light (1969), Dana Can Deal (1974), Cielio Drive (1969), Waste Motion (1974), Gaze (1974), A Brief History of Japan 1939-1945 (1974), and Cutting Room Newsreel (1974) at The Millennium Film Workshop, 66 East 4th Street, New York, New York; May 24, 1997 (Invited).
Squatters televised for four screenings on DTH National Satellite Network, France; and four screenings on Antenna One Network, Romania; 1996- 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Illinois Wesleyan University, April 16, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, University of Oklahoma, March 28, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, Feminist Film Series, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, University of Kansas, March 5, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, University of Akron, Ohio, March 2, 1997.
The Women Who Made The Movies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, January 20, 1997.
Films by Wheeler Winston Dixon; the Fifth Annual Arvika Festivalen,
Arvika, Sweden, July 19-20, l996, curated and with an introductory lecture
by Bert Deivert (Invited).
The Women Who Made The Movies, National Women's History Month, University
of New Orleans, March, 1996. (Invited).
The Women Who Made The Movies, International Film Festival of Kerala, India;
Spring, 1996. (Invited).
The Women Who Made The Movies, Women's Film Festival of Madrid, Spain; November,
1995. (Invited.)
The Women Who Made The Movies, Films de Femmes Festival, Créteil,
France, Spring, 1995. (Invited)
Serial Metaphysics, March 16, 1995, College of William and Mary. (Invited)
Squatters, MIPCOM Festival, Cannes, France, October 10-14, 1994. (Refereed)
What Can I Do?, April 30, 1994, The 1994 International Conference on Narrative
Literature, The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, with lecture. (Invited)
What Can I Do?, March 23, 1994, The Museum of the Moving Image, National
Film Theatre, London, England, with lecture. (Invited)
What Can I Do?, March 4, 1994, Society for Cinema Studies National Convention,
Syracuse, NY, with lecture. (Refereed)
What Can I Do?, (Two Screenings; 3 and 6PM), January 18, 1994, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York, New York, with lecture. (Invited)
What Can I Do?, January 21, 1994, Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City, MO, with lecture. (Invited)
What Can I Do?, January 6, 1994, invitational press screening, Tribeca Screening
Room, New York, NY.
The Women Who Made the Movies, National Women's Studies Association 15th
Annual Conference, Ames, Iowa, June 18, 1994.
The Women Who Made the Movies, Films de Femmes Festival, Créteil,
France, Spring, 1994. (Invited)
The Women Who Made the Movies, Women in Film 9th International Film Festival,
Universal City, California, March 5, 1994. (Invited)
What Can I Do?, November 18, 1993, Anthology Cinema Archives, New York,
New York, with lecture. (Invited).
The Women Who Made the Movies, Dallas Video Festival, November 13, 1993.
(Invited)
The Women Who Made the Movies, The University of Northern Florida, March
1, 1993. (Invited)
The Women Who Made the Movies, Sullivan County Community College, March
10, 1993. (Invited)
Quick Constant and Solid Instant, Wedding, San Francisco Cinematheque, San
Francisco Art Institute, February 21, 1993. (Invited)
Serial Metaphysics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, October 19, 1992.
(Invited)
The Women Who Made the Movies, University Film and Video Association National
Conference, August 10, 1991. (Invited)
The Women Who Made the Movies, Nebraska Educational Television Network,
Nov. 23, 24 and December 31, 1990. (Invited)
Madagascar, San Francisco Cinematheque at the San Francisco Art Institute,
June 2, 1990. (Invited)
Damage, California Film Society, Pasadena, California; May 24, 1990. (Invited)
Four Films by Wheeler Dixon ("London Clouds," "Tightrope,"
"The Warm Midwestern Bedroom Does Not Matter," "Distance")
at the University of Alaska, Anchorage; April 12, 1989. (Invited)
Serial Metaphysics, Bits and Pieces, The School 23 Art Center, Boulder,
CO; October 25, 1988. (Invited)
Coming Attractions, (with Gwendolyn Foster) at the Collective for Living
Cinema, 41 White Street, NY; December 5-8, 1988. (Invited)
Coming Attractions, (with Gwendolyn Foster) at the Rice Museum Media Center,
Houston, TX; October 30, 1988. (Invited)
The Films of Wheeler Dixon on The Territory (PBS), originating from Channel
8, KUHT, Houston, TX; October 25, 1987. (Invited)
The Films of Wheeler Dixon (A One-Man Show), at the Collective for Living
Cinema, 41 White Street, NY; March 20, 1987. (Invited)
TV Works: Anthology, a touring exhibition included in the collection of
the Chicago Video Data Bank and shown at museums throughout the United States,
including the Los Angeles Technical Art Institute, Summer 1985; "Encounter
#2." (Juried Exhibition)
"Mix": Recent Short Tapes, Video Viewing Room, The Kitchen Center
for Film and Video, New York; November 6-December 1, 1984; "Serial
Metaphysics." (Invited)
The Experimental Film: A Private View, New Jersey Art Institute, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ; September 30-November 4, 1984; "Serial
Metaphysics," "Dana Can Deal," "Madagascar." (Invited)
Avant-Garde Series #1, Rutgers University, November 15, 1982; "The
Decline and Fall of 1960s Britain." (Invited)
Theta Television Series, Los Angeles, CA; Summer 1976: "Dana Can Deal,"
"Un Petit Examen," "Madagascar." (Refereed)
Experimental Film Series, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; March 4, 1976;
"Quick Constant and Solid Instant." (Invited)
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Cooperative Show, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
PA, 1976; "Un Petit Examen," "Madagascar," "Dana
Can Deal." (Invited)
Yale Film Society Festival, Experimental Film Series, Yale University, New
Haven, CT; November 18, 1975: "Tightrope," 1968: "Our National
Anthem."
5th Annual Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Sinking Creek, TN; April 25-June
24, 1974: "Damage," (Jury Award), "Follies Child." (Juried
Exhibition)
Filmmakers Invitational, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Film Dept.,
MIT, Boston, MA; 1974; "Damage." (Invited)
Film Series, SUNY Purchase Film Studies Program, SUNY Purchase, NY; 1974;
"Damage," "Serial Metaphysics," "Follies Child,"
"Numen Lumen." (Invited)
Brussels Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium; August 16, 1974-January 1, 1975:
"Follies Child," "Damage," "Mounier's Syndrome."
(Juried Exhibition)
Best of the Whitney Film Series, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY; July 12-15, 1974: "Serial Metaphysics." (Refereed)
Collected Works of Wheeler Dixon, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; February
27, 1974. (Invited)
Rutgers College Experimental Film Festival, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
NJ; April 19-21, 1974: "Gaze," "Follies Child," "Stargrove,"
"Damage," "Ritual TV," "Numen Lumen," "London
Clouds," "Serial Metaphysics." (Invited)
Five Expansions of Vision, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY;
April 10-11, 1973: "Serial Metaphysics." (Refereed)
The Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY; 1973: "Follies Child,"
1969:
"The Sunburst Ascension of Anastasia Orange." "Dave's Fantastic
Fifties Rock Group." (Invited)
Film Forum, New York, NY; March 30, 1972: "The Visionaries," "Wedding,"
"Three Films," "Ritual TV," "Clear Light,"
"Hitherto," "Perfectly Normal," "Serial Metaphysics,"
"Damage." (Invited)
Oberhausen Film Festival 1972: "Serial Metaphysics." (Invited)
Dallas Film Festival 1972: "Serial Metaphysics." (Invited)
5th-8th New York Avant Garde Festival, New York, NY; 1971: "Selected
Works;" 1970: "Devotion;" 1969: "The Visionaries,"
"Devotion;" 1968: "Selected Works." (Invited)
The National Film Theatre, London, England; 1971: "The Dave Clark Memorial
Film." (Invited)
Brecht West Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ, December 7, 1971: "Devotion,"
"Subterranean," March 7, 1971: "Sonbert/Gehr/Malanga."
(Invited)
Film Screening, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; November 3-6,
1971: "Sonbert/Gehr/Malanga." (Invited)
Filmmakers' Cinematheque, 80 Wooster Street, New York, NY; 1970: "Our
National Anthem," "Jon," "Sacrament, One, Two, Three."
(Invited)
Canyon Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA; May 29-June 6, 1969: "In Crystal
Towers," "Anastasia Orange." (Invited)
The Jewish Museum, Filmmaker's Series, New York, NY; August 8-20, 1969:
"Sonbert/Gehr/Malanga." (Invited)
Cinema Kenmore Square, Boston, MA; August 15, 1969: "Sacrament."
(Invited)
The Elgin Theatre, New York, NY; December 22-23, 1969: "Collected Works
of Wheeler Dixon." (Invited)
The New Arts Lab, London, England; July 20, 1968: "Numbers Racket,"
"Candix Plane," " Sacrament, Parts I, II and III," "The
Dick Arthur Show." (Invited)
Pop Films, Filmmakers Cinematheque, New York, NY; June 20-22, 1968: "Dave's
Fantastic Fifties Rock Group," "Anastasia Orange," "Three
Day Night," "A Devotion for Travelers," "Wedding,"
(Invited)
The 8-1/2 New York Film Festival, New York, NY; December 1969: "Work
from the First Period," "Quick Constant and Solid Instant."
(Invited)
The 1st Annual Bellevue Film Festival, Bellevue, WA; 1968: "Numbers
Racket." (Prize Winner) (Juried Exhibition)
COMPLETE FILMS ARCHIVED:
The original 16mm printing materials and screening prints for the films of Wheeler Winston Dixon were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for their permanent collection in April, 2003. The print materials are now held at MoMA's Film Preservation Center in Hamlin, PA, for cataloguing, restoration and reprinting. What Can I Do?, Women Who Made the Movies, and The Films of Wheeler Winston Dixon are in the permanent video collection of the Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland.
COMPLETE FILMS DIGITALLY REMASTERED:
The complete films of Wheeler Winston Dixon were digitally remastered in Digibeta format at NETV, Nebraska, in January 2004. The completed digital masters were archived by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in April, 2006.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Modern Language Association Bibliography; available as CD-ROM, and Internet database.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
Profiled in Contemporary Authors Volume 121, 1987, 134-135; Directory of American Scholars, 2000 (Gale Research Press); Marquis' Who's Who in America, 1995 - present; and Wikipedia Online.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)