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Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing
phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something OFFENSIVE for everyone.
Chapters on subjects
as varied as CAMP, FASCISM in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKY'S movies. The latest topical jokes on Helen Keller,
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Challenger disaster.
Subjects such as ALCOHOL, DRUG and SPOUSAL ABUSE, COMMUNISM, ETHNICITY,
GAYS and LESBIANS and RELIGION. Commentary on leading figures of the era, including Father Coughlin, Kinky Friedman, Tom Lehrer
and John Wayne. They are all here in this QUIRKY, OUTRAGEOUS, informative, and above all, ENTERTAINING overview of POLITICAL
INCORRECTNESS and BAD TASTE in 20th century popular entertainment, including film, theatre, music, radio, television and vaudeville.
Just $19.95 plus postage at the links below.
British-born Anthony Slide is a former associate archivist of the American Film Institute and resident
film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is the author of more than seventy books on the history
of popular entertainment and the editor of a further 125 volumes in the "Filmmakers" series. The LOS ANGELES TIMES
has described him as a "one-man publishing phenomenon."
Among his major works are EARLY AMERICAN CINEMA,
THE FILMS OF D.W. GRIFFITH, GREAT RADIO PERSONALITIES IN HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS, GREAT PRETENDERS: A HISTORY OF FEMALE AND MALE
IMPERSONATION IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, THE SILENT FEMINISTS: AMERICA'S FIRST WOMEN DIRECTORS, THE AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY:
A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY, THE HOLLYWOOD NOVEL, NITRATE WON'T WAIT: A HISTORY OF FILM PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES,
LOIS WEBER: THE DIRECTOR WHO LOST HER WAY IN HISTORY, and SILENT PLAYERS: A BIOGRAPHICAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF 100
SILENT ACTORS AND ACTRESSES. His ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VAUDEVILLE was named oustanding academic book of the year by "Choice"
magazine, best reference book of the year by "Library Journal" and outstanding reference source of the year by the
American Library Association.
In 1990, in recognition of his work on the history of popular entertainment, Anthony
Slide was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Bowling Green University. At that time, he was hailed by Lillian Gish
as "our preeminent historian of the silent film."
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