An Interview with Takashi Shimizu

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WHEELER WINSTON DIXON

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review and Film and Video. His newest books as author or editor are Film and Television After 9/11 (editor; Southern Illinois UP, 2004); Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema (Wallflower, 2003); Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema (State University of New York Press, 2003), and Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader, edited with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (co-editor; Routledge, 2002). On April 11–12, 2003, he was honored with a retrospective of his films at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his films were acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum, in both print and original format. Shoichi Gregory Kamei is a lecturer in linguistics in the Department of English at the California State University, Channel Islands and a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Born in Japan, he moved to southern California with his parents at the age of three. Exploring his Japanese heritage has been a major theme in his life. He taught English as a Foreign Language to middle school students in rural northern Japan for three years. Recently, he taught a course entitled “Japanese Anime and Culture” at the California State University, Long Beach. His professional interests include language assessment, technology and language learning, culture and language, and second language acquisition.