BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON MUSIC
“Grieg and Andsnes,” American Record Guide, Vol. 68, No. 5 (September-October
2005), 36-37.
“Whose Chopin? Politics and Patriotism in A Song to Remember,” American Studies,
Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring 2005), 115-140.
“Ken Russell’s The Debussy Film (1965),” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and
Television, Vol. 25, No. 1 (March 2005), 81-99.
“Elgar’s Ear: A Conversation with Ken Russell,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video,
Vol. 22, No. 1 (January-March 2005), 37-49.
“The Voice that Fills the House: Opera Fills the Screen,” Literature/Film Quarterly,
Vol. 32, No. 1 (2004), 2-11.
“Marc-Andre Hamelin,” The American Record Guide, Vol. 66, No. 4 (July-August
2003), 4-7.
“Shostakovich’s Fool to Stalin’s Czar: Tony Palmer’s Testimony,” Journal of Film,
Radio, and Television, Vol. 22, No. 2 (June 2002), 173-196.
“Howard’s End: A Lisztian Pianist Crosses the Finish Line,” The American Record
Guide, Vol. 62, No. 3 (May-June 1999), 10-13.
“Words and Music: Graham Johnson, Immersed in Schubert,” The American Record
Guide, Vol. 62, No. 6 (November-December 1999), 22-25.
“Andras Schiff: The Focus Is on Robert Schumann,” The American Record Guide,
Vol. 61, No. 5 (September-October 1998), 47-49, 75.
“Virgil Thomson: A Portrait in Music,” The World and I, Vol. 11, No. 11 (November
1996), 112-117.
“Baffling Bartok: Secrets Beyond the Seventh Door," The American Record Guide, Vol.
58, No. 6 (November-December l995), l2-l4, 2l.
“Firkusny’s Lasting Legacy,” The World and I, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January 1995), 112-117.
“Robert Schumann's Illness,” The American Record Guide, Vol. 57, No. 5 (September-
October l994), 4l-42.
“’Diese herrliche Frau,’” The World and I, Vol. 9, No. 10 (October 1994), 112-117.
“Young Berlioz Revealed,” The World and I, Vol. 9, No. 2 (February 1994), 112-117.
“Rachmaninoff’s Piano Legacy,” The World and I, Vol. 8, No. 3 (March 1993), 114-
121.
"Remembering Rachmaninoff,” The American Record Guide, Vol. 56, No. l (Jan-Feb
l993), 6-l4.
“The Lyre of Light,” Film Comment, January-February 1992, 66-73.
“A Midsummer Night’s Mendelssohn,” The World and I (November 1991), 175-179.
“In Search of Stephen Foster,” The World and I, July 1991, 253-259.
“Dvorak in the
“In Search of Clara Schumann,”
Letters, No. 16 (Winter 1986), 76-87.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON LITERATURE AND THEATRE
“Brian Aldiss’ Billion Year
246-254.
“Back to Barsoom! Filmfax, No. 104 (October-December 2004), 74-81, 138.
“House of Mirth: Rooms with a View,” Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3
(2003), 199-202.
“August Wilson Interview,” Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4 (2002), 238-242.
“Backstage with the Bard; or, Building a Better Mousetrap,” Literature/ Film
Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2001), 147-164.
“The Hard Ride: Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers in the Kansas-Missouri Border
Wars—Ride with the Devil,” Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 3 (1999), 189-
195.
“The Illustrating Man: The Screenplays of Ray Bradbury,” Creative Screenwriting,
Vol. 6, No. 1 (January-February 1999), 45-54.
“Flying into the Winds of Time: An Interview with Ray Bradbury,” Outre, No. 26
(2001), 30-34.
“The Man Who Knew Too Much,” The World and I, Vol. 4, No. l (April l992),
362-37l.
“The Third Elephant: An Interview with Joseph Mugnaini, the Illustrator of Ray
Bradbury,” Horror Magazine, No. 8 (Summer 1997), 50-56 (reprinted in Outre, No.
19 (2000), 32-37.
“Time on His Hands: The Fantasy Fiction of Jack Finney,” Outre: The World of
Ultramedia, No. 16 (1999), 52-56, 75, 81.
“Lanford Wilson,” The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. V, No 2
(Spring 1991), 175-180.
“Men, Women, and Ghosts: The Supernatural Fiction of Edith Wharton,”
Nine: The Journal of Women’s Arts and Letters, No. 9 (Winter l983), 44-53.
“The New Woman on Stage: Women’s Issues in American Drama, l890-l9l5,”
Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women’s Arts and Letters , No. 7 (Winter l982), 6-
l9.
“The Stage Goes West: Routes to The Virginian,”
Quarterly, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 (Autumn l98l), 26-37.
“The old dark house: the architecture of ambiguity in The Turn of the Screw and
The Innocents,” in Chibnall, Steve and Julian Petley, eds., British Horror Cinema
(
“G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936),” in Winks, Robin, ed., Mystery and Suspense Writers
(New York: Scribner’s, 1998), 181-194.
“Miracles of Rare Device: Chesterton’s Miracle Crimes,” in Ahlquist, Dale, ed., The
Gift of Wonder: The Many Sides of G.K. Chesterton (
Chesterton Society, 2001), 101-109. Revision.
“Miracles of Rare Device in the Detective Stories of G.K. Chesterton and Others,” in
Accardo, Pasquale and John Peterson, and Geir Hasnes, eds., Sherlock Holmes
Meets Father Brown and His Creator (
Dispatch Box, 2000), 106-113.
“High Tea with Judith Lea,” Gilbert! The Magazine of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 3,
No. 6 (April-May 2000), 16-17.
“The Case of the Forgotten Detectives: The Unknown Crime Fiction of G.K.
Chesterton,” The Armchair Detective, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Fall l995), 388-393.
“So Much Is Lost in Translation: Literary Adaptations in the 1990s,” in
Wheeler Winston, ed., Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays (
“The Long, Loud Silence” (553-554) and “The Other Passenger” (711-712) in
Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (
Press, 1997).
“Brown, Charles Brockden,” in Sullivan, Jack, ed., The Penguin Encyclopedia of
Horror and the Supernatural (New York: The Viking Press, 1986), 58-60.
“Back to Barsoom!” Filmfax, No. 104 (October-December 2004), 74-81, 138.
“Time on His Hands: The Fantasy Fiction of Jack Finney,” Outre: The World of
Ultramedia, Number 16 (1999), 52-56, 75, 81.
“The Kiss That’s Also a Bite: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas,” Horror
Magazine, No. 9 (Winter 1998), 62-65.
“Time on Our Hands: H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine,” The World and I, Vol. 10, No.
5 (May 1995), 330-334. (centenary of a classic novel)
“Footprints on the Sands of Mars,” The World and I, Vol. 9, No. 4 (April 1994), 324-
330 [written under the pseudonym “Jack Ketch”].
“The Man Who Invented Christmas,” The World and I, Vol. 8, No. 2 (December
1993), 321-326.
“Choice of Weapons,” The World and I, Vol. 8, No. 9 (September 1993), 184-193.
“Locked Rooms and Mean Streets,” The World and I, Vol. 7, No. 5 (May 1992), 313-
325.
“The Mysteries of Chris Van Allsburg,” The World and I, Vol. 6, No. 12 (December
1991), 252-261.
“The ‘Martian Chronicler’ Reflects,” The Christian Science Monitor, 20 March 1991,
16.
“Holmes in
“Bradbury Meets Disney,” TWA Ambassador Magazine, Vol. l4, No. 7 (July l98l), l2,
l4, l6, 20.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON FILMS AND FILMMAKERS
“Deadwood,”
“An Interview with Michael Moore,” Film & History, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2004), 86-88.
“Faces and Masks: Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus from Stage to Screen,” Literature/Film
Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2004), 166-174.
“Winstanley: or Kevin Brownlow Camps Out on St. George’s Hill,” Literature/Film
Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2003), 312-318.
“Shostakovich’s Fool to Stalin’s Czar: Tony Palmer’s Testimony (1987),” The
Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2002), 173-196.
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(2001), 250-251.
“Robots Redux: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Literature/ Film Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 4
(2001), 256-261.
“Mary Pickford and the American ‘Growing Girl,’” The Journal of Popular Film &
Television, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer 2001), 50-62.
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265.
“Kevin Brownlow’s Historical Films: It Happened Here (1965) and Winstanley
(1975),” Historical Journal of Radio and Television, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 2000),
227-251.
“Life to Those Shadows: Kevin Brownlow Talks about a Career in Films,” Journal of
Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (Fall 1999), 79-94. (co-written
with James M. Welsh)
“The Incredible Stillness of Being: Motionless Pictures in the Films of Ken Burns,”
American Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring 1996), 117-133.
“The Hole in the Doughnut: The Last Days of Buster Keaton,” The Journal of
Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol. X, No. 1 (Fall 1995), 79-99.
“Re-Examining the Silent Film: Interviews with Historians Charles Musser, Eileen
Bowser, and Richard Kozarski,” Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1995),
88-90.
“Clint Eastwood and the Machinery of Violence,” Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 21,
No. 1 (1993), 10-17.
“The Wisdom of the Serpent: Frauds and Miracles in Frank Capa’s [sic] The Miracle
Woman,” The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Vol. VII, No. 3 (l979),
293-309. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 16.
Gale Research Company, 1981, 165-166.
“A Matter of Definition: Out of Bounds in The Girl Friends,” Literature/Film
Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4 (1979), 270-276.
“Sternberg and The Last Command,” Cinema Journal, Vol. XV, No. 2 (Spring 1976),
68-73. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 20.
Gale Research Company, l98l, 377-378.
“Breaking the Classical Barrier” (Interview with filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli), in
Behrens, Laurence and Leonard J. Rosen, eds., Writing and Reading
Across the Curriculum (
“Troell, Jan,” in International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers—Volume Two—
Directors (Chicago: St. James Press, 1997), 1001-1003.
“The Wind,” in MacCann, Richard Dyer, ed., Films of the 1920s (
The Scarecrow Press, 1997), 115-118.
“Rowland Brown,” in Thompson, Frank, ed., Between Action and Cut (
Scarecrow Press, l985), 163-182.
Josef von Sternberg and The Last Command, in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.
20 (
Frank Capra’s The Miracle Woman, in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 20
(
“Vital Geography: Victor Seastrom’s The Wind,” in Whittemore, Don and Phillip
Alan Cecchettini, eds., Passport to
(New York: McGraw Hill, 1976), 255-261.
“C.S.A.,”
2003), 118-120.
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265.
“Riding with the Devil: The Movie Adventures of William Clarke Quantrill,”
History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Autumn 1999), 182-199.
“Peter Weir: The Poetry of Apocalypse,” Seasons, Summer 1998, 30-33.
“The Kiss That’s Also a Bite: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas,” Horror
Magazine, No. 9 (Winter 1998), 62-65.
“Disorder in the Court!:
“Coquette: Mary Pickford Finds a Voice,” Films in Review, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1-2
(January-February 1997), 61-66.
“‘Rosewood’ Remembers Race War,” Christian Science Monitor, 25 February 1997,
14.
“Mary Pickford Returns,” The World and I (December 1996), 112-117.
“Mel Gibson: Citizen of the Planet,”
“Robin Williams: The Bay Area’s Wild Child,” San Francisco Magazine, 1996-1997,
1014.
“Barry Levinson: Redefining
“Splendidly Self-Propelled: Douglas Fairbanks’ The Gaucho,” Films in Review, Vol.
XLVII, No. 718 (July-August 1996), 96-101.
“Man in Motion: An Interview with Buster Crabbe,” Films in Review, Vol. XLVII,
No. 7/8 (July-August 1996), 34-42.
“The Choreography of Hope: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.,” Film Comment,
Vol. 32, No. 3 (May-June 1996), 50-55.
“The Making of
“Shepard to the Rescue,” The World and I, Vol. 11, No. 4 (April 1996), 140-145.
“‘Jumanji,’ A Whale of a Tale,” The Christian Science Monitor, 15 December 1995,
12.
“Many Bridges to Cross: A Fable about Whoopi,” Films in Review, Vol. XLVI, No.
9/10 (November-December 1995), 46-53.
“All That Glitters,” Film Comment, Vol. 31, No. 2 (March-April 1995), 52-55.
“Railroad Man: The last ride of Buster Keaton,” Films in Review, Vol. XLVI, No.
5/6 (July/August l995), 2-11.
“Keaton the Prairie Pragmatist,” The World and I, Vol. 10, No. 10 (October 1995),
118-123.
“Beyond the Camera: The Untold Story Behind the Making of Hoop Dreams,” The
World and I, Vol.10, No. 10 (October l995), l32-l39 [written under the pseudonym
“Jack Ketch”].
“Touching All the Bases: The Documentaries of Ken Burns,” The World and I, Vol.
20, No. 1 (January 1995), 150-161 [written under the pseudonym “Jack
Ketch”].
“Mel Gibson: Infinite Space,” The World and I, Vol.9, No. 9 (September 1994), 151-