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Charles Maland

Selected Publications

  • City Lights.  London: British Film Institute, Film Classics Series, 2007.
  • Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image (Princeton University Press, 1989; paperback edition, 1991)
  • Frank Capra (Twayne Publishers, 1980; rev. ed., 1995)
  • American Visions: The Films of Chaplin, Ford, Capra, and Welles, 1936-1941 (Arno Press, 1977).

Representative articles and book chapters

  • “1939: Movies and American Culture in the Annus Mirabilis,” in The 1930s, ed. Ina Rae Hark, Screen Decades Series  (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2007): 228-249.
  • “1978: Movies and Changing Times.” The 1970s, ed. Lester Friedman, Screen Decades Series  (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2007): 205-227.
  • “Chaplin’s Modern Times,” in Film Analysis, ed. R. L. Rutsky (NY: W. M. Norton, 2005): 238-259
  • “A Star is Born: Caplin, American Culture, and the Dynamics of Charlie’s Star Image, 1913-1916.” in The Silent Cinema Reader, ed. Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer (NY: 2004): 197-209
  • “The American Adam,” in The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Moviews Have Portrayed the American Past, ed. Peter C. Rollins (NY: Columbia UP, 2004): 560-66
  • “Powered by a Ford? Dudley Nichols, Authorship, and Cultural Ethos in Stagecoach,” in Film Handbook to Stagecoach, ed. Barry K. Grant (NY: Cambridge UP, 2003): 48-81
  • "From Aesthete to Pappy: The Evolution of John Ford's Public Reputation," in John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era, ed. Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000), 220-252
  • "Charles Spencer Chaplin," in American National Biography, Vol. 4, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (NY: Oxford University Press, 1999), 697-700
  • "Capra and the Abyss: Self Interest Versus the Common Good in Depression America," in Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System, ed. Robert Sklar and Vito Zagarrio (Temple University Press, 1998), 95-128
  • "How Much Chaplin is in Chaplin? A Look at Attenborough's Screen Biography," Literature/Film Quarterly 25.1 (1997): 49-54
  • "Charles Spencer Chaplin," Dictionary of American Biography (Scribner's, 1995), 114-118
  • "Politics and Auteurs: From Chaplin to Wajda," in James Combs, ed., Movies and Politics: The Dynamic Relationship (Garland Press, 1993), 239-70
  • "The Burdens of Being Funny: The Circus," in Richard Dyer MacCann, ed., The Silent Comedians (Scarecrow, 1993), 106-113
  • "Frank Capra at Columbia: Necessity and Invention," in Bernard Dick, ed., Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992), 71-88
  • "Memory and Things Past: History and Two Biographical Flashback Films," East-West Film Journal 6 (Jan. 1992), 71-98
  • "Synthetic Criticism and American Movies," American Quarterly 41 (March 1989), 204-209
  • "Charles Brackett," Dictionary of American Biography (NY: Scribners, 1989), 45-46
  • Four selections in Film History, ed. Erik S. Lunde and Douglas Noverr (NY: Marcus Wiener, 1989), 35-39, 81-87, 125-28, 209-213
  • "The Social Problem Film," in Wes Gehring, ed., Handbook of American Film Genres (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), 305-329
  • "The Strange Case of Monsieur Verdoux: Comedy, Ideology, and the Dynamics of Reception," Film Criticism, 8 (Fall 1988), 45-62
  • "'Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?': The INS Interview with Charles Chaplin," Cineaste, 14:4 (1986), 10-15
  • "A Documentary Note on Charlie Chaplin's Politics," Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 5:2 (1985), 199-208
  • "The Millionaire Tramp," Post Script 3 (Spring/Summer 1984), 55-62
  • "On the Waterfront (1954): Film and the Dilemmas of American Liberalism in the McCarthy Era," Scandinavian Journal of American Studies, 14 (1982), 107-27
  • "Social Scientists and American Culture," Journal of American Culture, 5 (1982), 108-110
  • "Agee and Film," Southern Quarterly 19 (1981), 225-28
  • "Michael Curtiz" and "Eric Johnston" in Dictionary of American Biography, ed. John Garraty (New York: Scribners, 1981), 159-61, 396-98
  • "Dr. Strangelove: Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus," American Quarterly, 31 (1979), 697-717, reprinted in Peter Rollins, ed., Hollywood as Historian (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1983)
  • "What Was Cinema?" Film/Literature Quarterly, 7 (1979), 77-79
  • "Mr. Deeds and American Consensus," Film and History, 8 (1978), 9-15.

Honors & Organizations

  • GSA citation for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, 2003
  • Arts and Sciences Advising Award, 2001
  • Consultant and Interviewee, Griffith in Context Project: The Birth of a Nation, 2000-2001
  • Scholarly Commentator for Movies in Time, the History Channel, 1999
  • Editorial Board, Film and History, 1998--
  • Lindsay Young Professor
  • Editorial Board, Film Criticism, 1997--
  • L.R. Hesler Award for Teaching and Service, 1993
  • Chair, Publications Committee, Society for Cinema Studies, 1991-94
  • Editorial Board, Cinema Journal, 1993-1997
  • National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 1992
  • Theatre Library Association Book Award (and Pulitzer Prize Nomination) for Chaplin and American Culture, 1990
  • Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Achievement, 1990
  • Faculty, Stokely Institute for Liberal Arts Education, 1987
  • Chairperson of Cinema Studies Program, University of Tennessee, 1983-
  • Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Civilization, University of Bergen, Norway, 1981-82
  • Fellow, American Film Institute/Rockefeller Foundation, "Film and Humanities Summer Seminar," Beverly Hills, California, 1978.
Charles Maland

Contact Information

Charles Maland
Professor
Department of English
301 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6927
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: cmaland@utk.edu
Web Site:
web.utk.edu/~cmaland

Education

B.A., Augsburg College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research

American Literature, Film Studies