Gilbert Seldes
American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gilbert Vivian Seldes was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC television program The Subject is Jazz . He also wrote for other magazines and newspapers like Vanity Fair and the Saturday Evening Post. He was most interested in American popular culture and cultural history. He wrote and adapted for Broadway, including Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1930s. Later, he made films, wrote radio scripts and became the first director of television for CBS News and the founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- The seven lively arts (1957) (59)
- Mass Culture : The Popular Arts in America (1957) (40)
- The Great Audience (1950) (36)
- The 7 lively arts (1957) (22)
- Writing for television (1952) (14)
- The Movies Come From America (1937) (8)
- The new mass media: challenge to a free society (1957) (7)
- The Years Of The Locust (1973) (4)
- An Hour With The Movies And The Talkies (1929) (4)
- The Diary of a Film (1946) (3)
- The years of the locust (America, 1929-1932) (1933) (2)
- Some Impressions of Television (1962) (2)
- The Nature of Television Programs (1941) (2)
- Transplanted Writers (a Symposium, Continued) (1942) (1)
- The Man with the Cigar (1946) (1)
- Public Entertainment and the Subversion of Ethical Standards (1966) (1)
- The United States and the war (1)
- The diamond lens and other stories (1932) (1)
- The Great Audience@@@Radio, Television, and Society@@@World Communications: Press, Radio, Films (1951) (1)
- Mass Versus Coterie Culture (1960) (0)
- IRA O. GLICK and SIDNEY J. LEVY, in collaboration with EDITH ARLEN and assisted by SHIRLEY GREENE and KAROL KANE WEINSTEIN. Living with Television. Pp. 262. Chicago: Aldine, 1962. $4.95 (1963) (0)
- Irving Pichel (1891-1954): "Wonderful to Have Had You with Us" (1954) (0)
- Movies for the millions : an account of motion pictures, principally in America (1937) (0)
- Aurora's Other Dawn: Aurora Dawn . Herman Wouk. (1947) (0)
- Entertainment Via Mass Media (1957) (0)
- Book reviews (1966) (0)
- Instigation to Criticism (1941) (0)
- The Man with the Cigar: The Hucksters . Frederic Wakeman. ; The Big Noise . Fielden Farrington. (1946) (0)
- Book Reviews : CHALLENGE TO LEADERSHIP: MANAGING IN A CHANGING WORLD. The Conference Board. New York, Free Press, 1973. 372 pages, $3.95 (1973) (0)
- The First Freedom and Radio (1947) (0)
- Book reviews (1965) (0)
- There's Still No Business Like It (1952) (0)
- Law, Pressure, and Public Opinion (1946) (0)
- The Portable Ring Lardner. (1947) (0)
- REGINALD POUND and GEOFFREY HARMSWORTH. Northcliffe. Pp. xvi, 933. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1960. $10.00 (1961) (0)
- Previews of entertainment : through June, 1952 (1951) (0)
- Aurora's Other Dawn (1947) (0)
- WILBUR SCHRAMM (Ed.). One Day in the World's Press: Fourteen Great Newspapers on a Day of Crisis, November 2, 1956. Pp. 138. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1959. $6.95 (1960) (0)
- Your money and your life (1938) (0)
- The First Freedom and Radio: The First Freedom . Morris L. Ernst. (1947) (0)
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