Anthony Slide
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Anthony Slide | |
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Born | Birmingham, England | 7 November 1944
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | Film |
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Anthony Slide (born 7 November 1944) is an English writer who has produced more than seventy books and edited a further 150 on the history of popular entertainment. He wrote a "letter from Hollywood" for the British
Biography
Born in
In 1971, Slide was named a
Slide published his first book, Early American Cinema, in 1970 (it was subsequently revised and rewritten in 1994), and since then has been a prolific writer on little known areas of entertainment history. Among his most prominent works are The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company (1976, revised 1987), Great Pretenders: A History of Female and Male Impersonation in the Performing Arts (1986), Nitrate Won’t Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States (1992), Before Video: A History of the Non-Theatrical Film (1992), The Hollywood Novel (1995), DeToth on DeToth: Put the Drama in Front of the Camera (1997), Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses (2002), and Lost Gay Novels (2003).
He was the first to document the prominence of women directors in the American silent film industry with Early Women Directors (1977), which was subsequently revised and rewritten as The Silent Feminists (1996). Slide went on to edit The Memoirs of
Slide's 1986 work, The American Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary was named outstanding reference source of the year by the
His work as a writer and editor led
Slide conducted oral histories with many silent film celebrities, and these are available at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and elsewhere.
In 1990, Slide was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by
References
- ^ Champlin, Charles (14 July 1987). "The Matter Of Sexual Pretensions". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
External links
- Anthony Slide at IMDb
- anthonyslide
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