Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Vivian Seldes (January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. He was editor and drama critic of "The Dial". He is most famous for his 1924 book, "The Seven Lively Arts".

Born in Alliance, New Jersey, he attended Harvard University and was the New York correspondent for T. S. Eliot's "The Criterion".

In the 1930s, Seldes adapted "Lysistrata" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Broadway. 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.

The actress Marian Seldes is his daughter. The journalist George Seldes was his older brother.

Bibliography

*"The United States and the War", 1917
*"The Seven Lively Arts", 1924
*"The Stammering Century", 1928
*"An Hour with the Movies and the Talkies", 1929
*"Movies for the Millions", 1937
*"Proclaim Liberty!", 1949
*"The Great Audience", 1951
*"The Public Arts", 1964
*"Writing for Television"
*"The Years of the Locusts"
*"The New Mass Media"
*"Your Money and Your Life"
*"Mainland"
*"Against Revolution"
*"The Stammering Century"
*"This is America"
*"The Movies Come from America"
*"The Movies and the Talkies"
*"The Future of Drinking"
*"The Wings of the Eagle"
*"Lysistrata (A Modern Version)"

ee also

*"Seven Lively Arts"

Further reading

* cite book
last = Kammen
first = Michael G.
authorlink = Michael Kammen
title = The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States
publisher = Oxford University Press
year = 1996
month = March
id = ISBN 0-19-509868-4

External links

* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=5909 Gilbert Seldes] at Internet Broadway Database
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783032/ Gilbert Seldes] at Internet Movie Database
* [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/SELDES/cover.html "The Seven Lively Arts"] full text online