The James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies, Wheeler Winston Dixon is a filmmaker and professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The author and editor of twenty-two books, Dixon is also the coeditor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He was honored in 2003 with a retrospective of his films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where his films were acquired for the permanent collection of the museum.
Lost in the Fifties radically changes and expands our understanding of the decade: both by restoring many forgotten works and artifacts of the period to visibility, and by using those newly illuminated works to rethink the significance of the decade in both cinematic and broader cultural history. - Steven Shaviro, author of Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society
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