JOHN C. TIBBETTS ABRIDGED C-V Associate Professor of Film Studies Department of Theatre and Film University of Kansas

ACADEMIC ADDRESS: Dept. of Theatre and Film/ 356 Murphy Hall, University of Kansas/ Lawrence, KS 66045 HOME ADDRESS: 15307 West 90th Street/ Lenexa, KS 66219. E-MAIL: [email protected] WEB SITE: www.johnctibbetts.com

EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Kansas, l982. Special Studies Degree, administered through the Departments of Theatre, Film, Art History, and Photography. Dissertation: “The Stage/Screen Exchange: Patterns of Imitation in Art: 1896-1930.” M.A. University of Kansas, l974. Department of Radio-TV-Film. Thesis: “Rise and Fall: The Triangle Film Corporation (1915-1918).” B.A. University of Kansas, l969. Department of Design, School of Fine Arts.

OTHER EXPERIENCE RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING (ARTS REPORTER/ COMMENTATOR): Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor Radio Network, Boston MA, 1988-1997; Correspondent, Voice of America, Washington DC, 1993-94; Arts Reporter for KCTV-5 (CBS affiliate), Kansas City MO, 1985-1990; Arts Reporter and Arts Editor for KMBZ Radio (Bonneville) and KXTR Radio (Ingram), Kansas City MO, 1980-1990; Host, “A.M. Live,” KSHB-TV, Kansas City MO, 1981-1985.

BOOK PUBLICATIONS (Selected from a Total of Twelve Books) Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film (Co-Editor with James M. Welsh). New York: Facts on File, 2005. The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film (Co-Editor with James M. Welsh). New York: Facts on File, 2001. The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews (Co-Editor with James M. Welsh). Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Film (Co-Editor with James M. Welsh). New York: Facts on File, 1997. Dvorak in America (Editor). Portland OR: Amadeus Press, l993. The American Theatrical Film: Stages in Development. Bowling Green OH: The Popular Press, l986.

PEER-REVIEW ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS (Selected from more than 250 published articles) “Whose Chopin? Politics and Patriotism in A Song to Remember (1945),” American Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring 2005), 115-142. “Elgar’s Ear: A Conversation with Ken Russell,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol. 22, No. 1 (January-March 2005), 37-49. “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. “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. “Mary Pickford and the American ‘Growing Girl,’” The Journal of Popular Film & Television, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer 2001), 50-62. “Backstage with the Bard; or, Building a Better Mousetrap,” Literature/ Film Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2001), 147-164. “Kevin Brownlow’s It Happened Here (1965) and Winstanley (1975),”Historical Journal of Radio and Television, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 2000), 227-251. “Riding with the Devil: The Movie Adventures of William Clarke Quantrill,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Autumn 1999), 182-199. “The Illustrating Man: The Screenplays of Ray Bradbury,” Creative Screenwriting, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January-February 1999), 45-54. “The Incredible Stillness of Being: Motionless Pictures in the Films of Ken Burns,” American Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring 1996), 117-133.

BOOK CHAPTERS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHOLOGIES AND REFERENCE WORKS “A Life on Film: Renato Castellani’s The Life of Verdi, in Pekacz, Jolanta T., ed, Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms (London: Ashgate, 2006), 179-199. Four essays—“Movies of the 1920s,” 15-21; “The Midwest,” 421-429; “The Small Town,” 457-461; “The Machine in the Garden,” 590-595. (Columbia University Press, 2004)— The Columbia Companion to American History on Film (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). “The Old Dark House: The Architecture of Ambiguity in The Turn of the Screw and The Innocents,” in Chibnall, Steve and Julian Petley, British Horror Cinema (London and New York: Routledge, 2002, 99-116. “The Truth in Masquerade: Images of Franz Liszt in the Movies,” in Hans Kagebeck and Johann Lagerfelt, eds., Liszt the Progressive (Lewiston NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001), 209-222. “The New Tin Pan Alley: 1940s Hollywood Looks at American Popular Songwriters,” in Music and Culture in America: 1900-1950, edited by Michael Saffle (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000), 349-384. “So Much Is Lost in Translation: Literary Adaptations in the 1990s,” in Wheeler Winston Dixon, Ed., Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays (Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2000), 29-44. “G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936),” in Mystery and Suspense Writers, edited by Robin Winks. New York: Scribner’s, 1998, 181-194. “The Missing Title Page: Dvorak and the American National Song,” in Music and Culture in America: 1861-1918, edited by Michael Saffle. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1998, 343-365.

CREATIVE WORK Producer/Writer for Piano Portraits, a 15-part radio series, broadcast on Kansas Public Radio, Spring 2006. Producer/Writer for The World of Robert Schumann, a 15-Part Dramatic Radio Series, broadcast twice on Kansas Public Radio, Spring 2003 and Fall 2004. (Note: This series is being broadcast worldwide on the WFMT Radio Network out of Chicago, Fall 2006.) Artist-Illustrator. My illustrations appear in many of my publications; and there have been numerous exhibitions of portrait paintings in Kansas City and Lawrence. Musician-Pianist. Accompanist for numerous silent film screenings in a variety of venues, including the American Film Institute Theatre, Washington, D.C.

OTHER ACTIVITIES Member, International Association of Media Historians (IAMHIST) and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Vice President, Literature/Film Association (LFA). Member, Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft, Duesseldorf, Germany Co-Founder and organizer of the annual Buster Keaton Celebrations, Iola, Kansas. Film Critic for Kansas Public Radio (weekly broadcasts); and KCUR-FM, Kansas City, Missouri (“The Walt Bodine Show”).