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Tom Slater

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Works in Progress

Contributor, Biographical essay, professional still photos, and analysis of primary documents on silent film producer/actress Corinne Griffith, Women Film Pioneers Sourcebook. Urbana: University of Illinois Pr.

June Mathis: Iconoclast of the Silent Screen. Urbana: University of Illinois Pr. (Biography and scholarly monograph for the Women Film Pioneers Book Series).

Books

American Silent Film: Discovering Marginalized Voices. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2002 (co-editor with Gregg Bachman; co-author of Introduction; contributor of “June Mathis: A Woman Who Spoke Through Silents”).

A Handbook of Soviet and East European Film and Filmmakers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991 (editor-in-chief, author of introduction and essays on the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia).

Milos Forman: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.

 Essays

 Book Review: Cari Beauchamp and Mary Anita Loos. Anita Loos Rediscovered. Univ. of California Pr., 2003. Journal of Film and Video 56.3 (Fall 2004).

Book Reviews: “Charlie Keil. Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913. Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 2002” and “Jerome F. Shapiro. Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. Routledge, 2002.” Studies in the Humanities, 29.2 (December 2002): 152-54, 166-70.

 “Transcending Boundaries: Lois Weber and the Discourse Over Women’s Roles in the Teens and Twenties.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18 (2001): 257-71.

“June Mathis’s Classified (1925): One Woman’s Response to Modernism.” Journal of Film and Video 50.2 (Summer 1998) 3-14.

“Oliver, Godard, and the Violence of Creation: Considering the Relationship of Theater and Film in a (Post-) Apocalyptic Age.” Interdisciplinary Humanities 14.1 (Winter and Spring 1997): 33-62.

 “Hollywood’s Myth.” Aristeia Myth Journal of IUP Autumn 1996: 17-31.

 “New Directions in Film and Literary Research: A Dual Book Review.” Studies in the Humanities 23.1 (June 1996): 109-13.

“June Mathis: A Woman Who Spoke Through Silents.” Griffithiana: A Journal of Film History 53 (March 1995): 132-69.

 “June Mathis: The Silents’ Greatest Writer.” The Silent Film Newsletter 1.7 & 1.8 (Sept. & Oct. 1993): 1-3 & 3-4.

“Why and How to Teach the Intro to Film Course Within English Departments: Some Notes from Personal Experience.” Media Matters (Newsletter of the Assembly on Media Arts, National Council of Teachers of English) 5.1 (Winter 1993): 2-6.

 “June Mathis.” Official program for the world premiere of the newly reconstructed Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1,000 copies printed). 20 Nov. 1992: np.

 “Gauging the Depths of The Film Illusion: Three Books on the American Silent Cinema.” Studies in the Humanities 19.1 (spring 1992): 80-90.

 “Teaching Vietnam: The Politics of Documentary.” Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television. Ed. Michael Anderegg. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1991: 269-90.

 “Considering the Active Viewer: The Basis for Seeing the Liberating Impact of Film on Language.” Style 23.4 (1989): 545-65.

 “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Tale of Two Decades.” Film and Literature: A Comparative Approach to Adaptation. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 1988: 45-58.

 “June Mathis,” “Lenore Coffee,” “Isobel Lennart,” “Eleanor Perry,” “Jo Swerling,” and “Anthony Vieller.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Screenwriters: Second Series. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1986.

 “Milos Forman: An Interview, Part II.” Post Script 5.1 (Fall 1985): 2-16.

 “Milos Foreman: An Interview, Part II.” Post Script 4.3 (Spring/Summer 1985): 2-15.