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Professor of English and Film StudiesResearch and teaching interests
Modern British and American literature; film; creative writing (poetry, screenplays)
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1970
M.F.A., Cornell University, 1969
A.B., Columbia University, 1967
Publications
Books
With (the late) Gerald Mast, A Short History of the Movies, 9th and 10th editions. Longman, 2005 and forthcoming 2007
A Short History of the Movies: Abridged Ninth Edition. Longman, 2006
With (the late) Gerald Mast, A Short History of the Movies, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th editions. Allyn and Bacon/Longman, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2002
How Movies Work. Macmillan, 1987. Rev. ed. Univ. of California Press, 1992; rpt. 1996, 1997. Trans into Chinese, Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 1996
Faulkner's MGM Screenplays. Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1982
The Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable. Princeton Univ. Press, 1982. Rpt. Dalkey Archive Press, 2006
To Have and Have Not. Wisconsin/Warner Screenplay Library. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1980. Trans. into Japanese, UNI, 1984
Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film. Princeton Univ. Press, 1978. Rpt. Dalkey Archive Press, 2006
Faulkner and Film. Frederick Ungar, 1977
Telling It Again and Again: Repetition in Literature and Film. Cornell Univ. Press, 1972. Rpt. Univ. Press of Colorado, 1989
Slides. Angelfish Press, 1970 (poems)
Breakwater. Columbia Review Press, 1964 (poems)
Selected essays (since 1985)
"The Mummy's Pool" (revised version). Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett. Scarecrow Press, 2004, 3-19
"Hawks on Faulkner: Excerpts from an Interview." Post Script 22 (Fall 2002): 3-22
"Violent Genres," in Violence in America: An Encyclopedia, ed. Ronald Gottesman (New York: Scribner's, 1999), vol. I, pp. 529-37.
"Film Industry" ; "History of Film." American Academic Encyclopedia. Grolier, 1997. Also on the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM (1998-2001)
"Citizen Kane: The Boarding-House Scene." Perspectives on Citizen Kane. Ed. Ronald Gottesman. G. K. Hall, 1996, 465-503
"Motion Pictures: Film History"; "Motion Pictures: Film Personalities." Collier's Encyclopedia Collier's, 1996, 16: 595-619, 628-32. Also on CD-ROM (1996-98)
"Film Production"; (with Gerald Mast_ "Film History."American Academic Encyclopedia. Grolier, 1995. New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM (1996-97)
"Wild Blueberry Muffins." Film Criticism 17, 2-3 (Winter-Spring 1993): 53-55
"Sharecropping in the Golden Land." Faulkner and Popular Culture: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1988. Ed. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1990, 196-206
"William Faulkner and Film." Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1989, 955-56
"Late Show on the Telescreen: Film Studies and the Bottom Line." Film Quarterly 52, 2 (Winter 1989): 56-60
"The Reflexive Dream." Dreamworks 5, 3-4 (1988): 139-46
"The Whole World is Watching." American Book Review 9, 5 (November-December 1987): 3-5
"United States." World Cinema Since 1945. Ed. William Luhr. Ungar/Continuum, 1987, 587-638
"William Faulkner." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 44: American Screenwriters, Second Series. Gale Research, 1986, 123-31
"Children of the Light." Shadows of the Magic Lamp: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Film. Ed. George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1985, 14-29. Revised version in Film Genre Reader. Ed. Barry K. Grant. Univ. of Texas Press, 1986, 236-57. Rpt. in Film Genre Reader II. Ed. Barry K. Grant. Univ. of Texas Press, 1995, 308-329
"War Birds and the Politics of Refusal." Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sartoris Family. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. G. K. Hall, 1985, 274-89.
Selected honors and awards
Best of Boulder Community Service Award, 1995
Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1980-1981
Van Ek Teaching Award, University of Colorado, 1977, 1982
Honorable Mention, Academy of American Poets Prize, 1969
Current projects
A Short History of the Movies, 10th edition (book)
Two Greek Women (poems)