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Books
EVERY STEP A STRUGGLE:
INTERVIEWS WITH 7 WHO SHAPED THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IMAGE IN MOVIES (Washington, D.C.: New Academia Press, 2007)
FILM STUDY: AN ANALYTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 4 Vols. (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990)
AN ALBUM OF MODERN HORROR FILMS (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1983)
GREAT SCIENCE FICTION FILMS; REVISED EDITION (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1982)
GREAT SPORTS MOVIES (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1980)
THE BOX OFFICE CLOWNS: FROM BOB HOPE TO WOODY ALLEN (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1979)
GANGSTERS ON THE SCREEN (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1978)
WOMEN ON THE HOLLYWOOD SCREEN (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1977)
AN ALBUM OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION FILMS (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1976)
THE TALKING CLOWNS (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1976)
YESTERDAY'S CLOWNS: THE RISE OF FILM COMEDY (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1973)
FILM STUDY: A RESOURCE GUIDE (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973)
CAMERAS WEST (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1971)
TERRORS OF THE SCREEN (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 197O)
WHEN MOVIES BEGAN TO SPEAK (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1969)
WHEN PICTURES BEGAN TO MOVE (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968)
MOVIES AND HOW THEY ARE MADE (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968)
Books in Process
REBELS WITH A CAUSE: INTERVIEWS WITH 9 WHO RESHAPED THE AFRICAN AMERICAN IMAGE
THE INVESTMENT CLUB (Novel) -- co-author Steven Manchel
Articles
and Book Chapters
"Marcel Ophuls (Originally 'A War Over Justice: An Interview With Marcel Ophuls,' 1978)," Walker, Elise M. and David T. Johnson, eds., Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. 59-78 pp.
"Post-Code Movies (From Gangsters on the Screen, 1978)," Silver, Alain and James Ursini, eds. Gangster Film Reader, Pompton Plains, NJ: Limelight Editions, 2007. 97-106 pp.
"What Does It Mean, Mr. Holmes? An Approach to Film Study," Literature Film Quarterly 31:1 (2003):69-76.
"Cultural Confusion: A Look Back At Delmar Daves' BROKEN ARROW." Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American on Film. Eds. Peter Rollins and John E. O’Connor. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2003. Expanded Edition.
"What About Jack? Another Perspective on Family Relationships in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING," Discovering Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’. Ed. Tony Magistrale. San Bernardino, CA.: The Borgo Press, 1998.
"Cultural Confusion: A Look Back At Delmar Daves' BROKEN ARROW." Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American on Film. Eds. Peter Rollins and John E. O’Connor. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1998.
"Losing and Finding SERGEANT RUTLEDGE," Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 17:2 (March 1997):245-59.
Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot,’" Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 17:1 (March 1997):137-143.
"The Man who Made the Stars Shine Brighter: An Interview With Woody Strode," Black Scholar 25:2 (Spring 1995):37-46.
"A Reel Witness: Steven Spielberg's Representation of the Holocaust in SCHINDLER'S LIST," Journal of Modern History 67 (March 1995):83-100.
"What About Jack?: Another Perspective on Family Relationships in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING," Literature Film Quarterly 23:1 (1995):68-78.
"Cultural Confusion: A Look Back At Delmar Daves' BROKEN ARROW," Film and History 23:1-4 (1995):57-69.
"How To Win A Peabody,' PEABODY (Athens: University of Georgia George F. Peabody Awards, 1990)
27 entries on film and television personalities for American Academic Encyclopedia (Princeton: Arete Publishing Company, 198O)
"Remaking a King's Image," Subject and Strategy, ed. by Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978), 18O-193.
"A War Over Justice: An Interview with Marcel Ophuls," Film Literature Quarterly 6:1 (Winter 1978)
"Reading the Script," Easy Going: The Merrill Linguistic Reading Program (Columbus: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1975)
"Dickens and the Film," Exercise Exchange (Fall 1974)
"The Afro-American in Hollywood Films, Part II," Bulletin of Black Theatre 5 (Spring 1974)
"The Afro-American in Hollywood Films, Part I." Bulletin of Black Theatre 5 (Fall 1973)
"Film Literacy Bibliography," Journal of New England Reading Association (Fall 1973)
"For Us and By Us," Journal of New England Reading Association (Spring 1973)
"Movies and Man's Humanity," Readings in the Humanities, ed. by Sheila Schwartz (N.Y.: Macmillan, 197O)
"Seeing and Perceiving," The Rhode Island English Journal (Fall 1969)
"Reversing the Process," The English Leaflet (Fall 1969)
"The Tired Critics," The English Leaflet (February 1969) Republished in The Rhode Island English Journal (Spring 1969)
"Volunteers for La Mancha," The English Leaflet (September 1968)
"Study Guide for The Hustler," Screen Education (March/April 1968)
**"The Archetypal American," Media and Methods (April 1968)
"Teaching Dr. Strangelove," Media and Methods (December 1967)
*"Teaching Nothing But A Man," Media and Methods, (October 1967)
"Film Education in Our Time," Screen Education(July/August 1967)
*"Film Images of the Negro," Media and Methods (April 1967)
"Evaluating Motion Pictures: 1966," Greater Hartford Forum, 1966
"The Universal Classroom," Screen Education (January/February 1966)
"The Film and the Book," English Journal (March 1964)
* Reprinted by ERIC
** Reprinted in The
Compleat Guide to Film Study, ed. by G. Howard Poteet, (Champlain,
I11." The National Council of Teachers of English 1972)
Articles to Be Published
"Gangsters on the Hollywood Screen" Excerpt.
Book Reviews
Mishegoss: Schindler’s List, Holocaust Representation and Film
History, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
18:3(1998): 431-436.
Peckinpah The Western Films--A Reconsideration, Historical
Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 18:1(1998):151-152.
Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 15:3 (1995):448-450.
Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 14:3 (1994):345-47.
Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 13:3 (1993)
Richard Burton: So Much, So Little, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 13:2 (1993)
The Cinema of the Sea, Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1990)
Chaplin and American Culture, Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1990)
Indelible Shadows, Journal of Popular Film and Television (Spring 1986)
Film: The Democratic Art and Movie-Made America :The Social History of American Movies, The Journal of Aesthetic Education (Summer 1978)
Film Music and Cinema Booklist Supplement I, Film Heritage (Spring 1975)
Four References.... Cinema Journal XIII:I (Fall 1973)
Greed, Film Heritage (Spring 1973)
English Education and the Electronic Revolution, Elementary English (April 1971)
Hollywood in the Thirties, Film Society Review, (March 1969)
An Illustrated History of the Horror Film, Film Society Review (February 1969)
Luis Bunuel, Film Society Review (January 1969)
Sight, Sound and Society, The Journal of Aesthetic Education (April 1971)
Saint Cinema, The Film Journal (Summer 1971)
Towards a Visual Culture, Elementary English (March 197O)
The Lubitsch Touch, Film Comment (Fall 1969)
Evil, The Journal of Aesthetic Education (July 1969)
Suspense in the Cinema, Film Society Review, (May 1969)
Fellini, Film Society Review (April 1969)
Private Screenings, The Journal of Aesthetic Education (January 1969)
The Cinema of Joseph Losey, Film Society Review (December 1968)
The Moving Image: A Guide to Cinematic Literary, Film Society Review (November 1968)
Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film, Film Society Review
(October 1968)
The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney, Film Society Review (September 1968)
Jeffersonianism and the American Novel, Journal of Aesthetic Education, (July 1968)
Roundup, Film Society Review (May 1968)
Man and the Movies, Journal
of Aesthetic Education (April 1968)
Book
Reviews to be Published
PROJECTING THE HOLOCAUST INTO THE PRESENT: THE CHANGING FOCUS OF CONTEMPORARY HOLOCAUST CINEMA, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Fall, 2006.
Magazines
LA MANCHA PLUS TWO (Burlington: University of Vermont 197O)
Reprinted by Eric in 1971
LA MANCHA PLUS ONE (Burlington: University of Vermont 1969)
THE LA MANCHA PROJECT (Burlington: University of Vermont 1969)
FILM COURSES TAUGHT
FELLOWSHIPS,
GRANTS, NATIONAL SERVICE, AND ACADEMIC HONORS
Recognized by Film and History as a Pioneer in Film Studies, Fall, 2006.
Honorary Degree of Humane Letters (L.H.D.). Burlington College, June 7, 2003.
Dean's Lecture Award, Spring 2000
Inducted as an Honorary
Member of Phi Alpha Theta, April 9, 1999
University of Vermont
Graduate College University Scholar in Social Sciences and Humanities for
1997-1998
Arts and Sciences Faculty
Award to do book on African-American Films, 1992
George Foster Peabody Advisory Board, 1982-1989 (Chairperson, 1985-1987)
Review team for Photography and Cinema Department, Ohio State, April, 1983
Convocation speaker, Earlham College. Topic: The Evolution of Woody Allen's Comedy. January 22, 198O
Program Director, 1977-1978 Vermont Seminars
Program Chairperson, 1976 annual Society for Cinema Studies convention at the University of Vermont
Faculty Research Award to update FILM STUDY, 1975-1977
American Library Association, Outstanding Film Reference Book, Foreign and Domestic, 1973-1974, FILM STUDY: A RESOURCE GUIDE, 1974
MOVIES AND HOW THEY ARE MADE, published in Portuguese edition, 1974
Participant in American Jewish Committee's 1974 Seminar for Academicians in Israel
Junior Literary Guild Selection, CAMERAS WEST, 1972
"Ambassador Book Selection," English Speaking Union, CAMERAS WEST, 1972
Faculty Research Award for Study of Black American Films, 1971-1972
Director of La Mancha Project in Composition (cooperative program with Vermont High Schools), 1968-1972
Simmonds Foundation Grant for Research in England, 1971
Junior Literary Guild Selection, TERRORS OF THE SCREEN, 197O
Director of Vermont's National Writing Achievement Award for the National Council of Teachers of English, 1970
National Committee for Innovating Practices in the Teaching of English, 1968-1969
Participant in the New York State Institute for Teachers of English, 1964
Literary Appointments
Editorial Board, FILM AND HISTORY, 1996-present
Editorial Board, JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION, 1977-present
Manuscript Consultant: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1974-1977; Associated University Presses, 1974-1977
Editorial Consultant, THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION, 1971-1973
Book Editor, FILM SOCIETY REVIEW 1967-197O
Memberships in Professional Societies: (with offices held)
American Federation of Film Societies (Council Member, 1968-1974), (Chair, 1974-1976)
British Film Institute (1967-Present)
Society for Cinema Studies (1967-Present) (Treasurer, 1971-1976), (Council Member, 1977-198O)
University Film and Video Asso. (1970-Present) (Film/Video Rep. on Constituencies Comm., 1982-1984)
University Film and Video Asso. (Comm. on Accreditation, 1984-1985)
Biographical Reference Books
CONTEMPORARY THEATRE, FILM & TELEVISION: A BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
CONTEMPORARY WRITERS
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SCHOLARS
DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS
INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS AND WRITERS WHO'S WHO
MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT
SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTERNATIONAL WHO'S WHO IN EDUCATION
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION
WHO'S WHO IN ENTERTAINMENT
WHO’S WHO IN THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST
THE WRITER'S DIRECTORY