Acknowledgments
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 of Film and Video. His newest books as author or editor include A Short History of Film (Rutgers UP, 2008), Film Talk: Director at Work (Rutgers UP, 2007), and Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema (Rutgers UP, 2006).