VITA
AND
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MUELLER
Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies and Professor of
Political
Mershon Center
614-247-6007
614-292-2407 (fax)
bbbb@osu.edu
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Citizenship:
Born:
Marital Status: Married, three children
EDUCATION
A.B., 1960--
M.A., 1963--UCLA--Political Science
Ph.D., 1965--UCLA--Political Science
USPHS Fellow, 1962-1965
M.A. THESIS
The Politics of Fluoridation in Seven California Cities
Ph.D. DISSERTATION
Reason and Caprice: Ballot Patterns in
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Foreign and defense policy, international relations, dance as
an art form,
public opinion, the war in Vietnam, dance history and film,
choreography of
Fred Astaire, perspectives on war and
peace, change
in post-Communist countries, terror
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
1965-69 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of
Rochester
1969-72 Associate Professor of Political Science, University of
Rochester
1972-2000 Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
1983-2000 Professor of Film Studies, University of Rochester
February- June 1994 Visiting Professor, Institute of International
Relations, Comenius University,
Bratislava, Slovakia
January 1997 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Alberta
February-March 1997 Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution, Washington,
DC
2000- Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon
Center, and Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
2000- Courtesy faculty appointment, Department of Dance, Ohio State
University
February-June 2001 Senior Guest Researcher, Norwegian Nobel Institute,
Oslo,
Norway
Biography
Profile in U.S. News & World
Report
Courses
Political
Science papers available on the web
Reprinted books available on the web
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Atomic Obsession
(New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2009)
Overblown: How Politicians and the
Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We
Believe Them (New York: Free Press, 2006). Information
about this book.
(ed.), Peace,
Prosperity, and Politics (
(ed. with Randall L. Calvert and
Rick K. Wilson)
William H. Riker, The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the
American
Constitution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996)
Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politics (New York: HarperCollins, 1995) available on the web
Policy
and Opinion in the Gulf War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1994)
(ed. with Richard G. Niemi
and Tom W. Smith) Trends in Public Opinion: A Compendium of Survey
Data
(Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1989)
Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989) available on the web
Dance Film Directory: An Annotated and Evaluative Guide to
Films on
Ballet and Modern Dance (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Book Co.,
1979)
Films on Ballet and Modern Dance: Notes and a Directory(New
York:
American Dance Guild, 1974) (includes extensive analysis of Humphrey's "Passacaglia" and Graham's "Night
Journey")
War, Presidents and Public Opinion (New York: Wiley,
1973). Selected as one of
the "Fifty
Books That Significantly Shaped Public Opinion Research, 1946-1995" by
the
American Association for Public Opinion Research, Public Opinion
Quarterly,
Fall 1995. Recipient of the first Warren J.
Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinon Research presented by
the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, November 8, 2007
(ed.) Approaches to Measurement in International Relations: A Non-Evangelical Survey (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969)
Canada as a Non-Nuclear Power (Los Angeles: University
of California, National
Security Studies Program, 1963)
PUBLICATIONS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE:
ARTICLES
"Assessing Measures Designed to Protect the Homeland," Policy Studies Journal,
forthcoming, 2010 available
on the web
"This Just In: War Has Almost Ceased to Exist," 124 Political Science Quarterly
297-321 (Summer 2009)
"The Long-Term Political and Economic Consequences of 9/11," in Matthew H. Morgan (ed.), The Impact of 9/11: The Day that Changed Everything?" (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 7-15
"Inflating Terrorism," in Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall
(eds.), Threat Inflation:
The Theory, Politics, and Psychology of Fear Mongering in the United
States (Routledge, forthcoming)
"Are We Correctly Assessing and Addressing Terrorist Threats?"
in Stuart Gottlieb (ed.), Debating
Terrorism and Counterterrorism (Washington, DC:
Congressional Quarterly Press, forthcoming)
"Faulty Correlation, Foolish Consistency, and Fatal
Consequence: Democracy, Peace, and Theory in the Middle East," in
Steven H. Hook (ed.), Democratic
Peace and Promotion: Critical Perspectives (Kent State
University Press, forthcoming) available
on the web
"Apocalypse Later," National Interest, Nov./Dec. 2007, pp. 19-20 available on the web
"Radioactive Hype," National Interest, Sep./Oct. 2007, pp. 59-65 available on the web
"The Terrorism
Industry: The Profits of Doom," in George Kassimeris
(ed.), Playing Politics with
Terrorism: A User's Guide (London: Hurst, and New York: Columbia
University Press, 2007), pp. 301-20
"Fear Not: Notes from a naysayer," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2007, pp. 30-37. available on the web
"What If We Leave? When nightmare scenarios are used to justify endless war, it's time to wake up," American Conservative, February 26, 2007 available on the web
"Vietnam
and Iraq: Strategy, Exit, and Syndrome," in John Dumbrell
and David Ryan (eds.), Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, lessons, legacies,
and ghosts (London and New York: Routledge,
2007), pp. 179-92
"Ask This: Ten questions about Homeland Security," Nieman Watchdog,
Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, February, 16, 2007
"Vers la fin de la guerre?" Politique
Étrangère 4:2006, 863-75
"Outfront Q & A: Protecting Our Golf Courses," Forbes, November 27, 2006,
p. 54, as interviewed by Susan Adams
"Terror doesn't add up," essay on Guardian (UK) comment is free
website, November 20, 2006 available
on the web
"Residual
Warfare: John Mueller on the future of terrorism," Reason, October 2006, pp.
32-34, as interviewed by Nick Gillespie
"Is There A Still a Terrorist Threat? The Myth of the Omnipresent
Enemy," Foreign Affairs,
September/October 2006, pp. 2-8. Roundtable followup discussion on "Is
There A Still a Terrorist Threat?" with James Fallows, Jessica Stern,
Fawaz Gerges, and Paul Pillar on Foreign Affairs website
available
on the web
"Reflections on What, If Anything, 'Are We Safer' Might Mean," September 2006. Lead essay and discussion (with Clark Kent Irwin, Veronique de Rugy, and Timothy Naftali) on Cato Unbound website available on the web
"Terrorism,
Overreaction, and Globalization," in Richard N. Rosecrance
and Arthur A. Stein (eds.), No More States? Globalization, National
Self‑Determination,
and Terrorism (
"Accounting for the Waning of Major War," in Raimo Väyrynen (ed.), The Waning of Major War: Theories and Debates (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 64-79.
"The
Cost of War," Foreign Affairs, January‑February 2006, dialog
with Christopher Gelpi on public opinion
"The
"Six Rather Unusual Propositions about Terrorism," 17 Terrorism and Political Violence 487‑505 (Autumn 2005) available on the web
"Response," 17 Terrorism and Political Violence 523‑528 (Autumn 2005). Reply to comments published in the journal about the "Six Propositions" article by Richard Betts, Daniel Byman, and Martha Crenshaw available on the web
"Ordering
the New World," in Michael Bothe, Mary
Ellen
O'Connell, and Natalino Ronzitti
(eds.), Redefining Sovereignty: The Use of Force After
the Cold War (
"Ask
this: Why not cool down the terrorism rhetoric a little?" Nieman Watchdog, Questions the Press
Should Ask,
"Simplicity and Spook: Terrorism and the Dynamics of Threat Exaggeration," 6 International Studies Perspectives, 155-73 (May 2005) available on the web
"What Was the Cold War About? Evidence from Its Ending," 119 Political Science Quarterly 609-31 (Winter 2004-05) available on the web
"A False Sense of Insecurity?" Regulation, Fall 2004, pp. 42-46 available on the web
"Why Isn't There More Violence?" 13 Security Studies 191-203 (Spring 2004) available on the web
"Attitudes Toward Democracy and Capitalism: A Western
Benchmark,"
in Janos Kornai
and Susan
Rose Ackerman (eds.), Building a Trustworthy State: Problems of
Post
Socialist Transition (
"Policing the Remnants of War," 40 Journal of Peace Research 507-18 (September 2003) available on the web
"Police Work or War? Public
reactions to dates
of infamy," Public Perspective, March/April
2003, pp. 31-34
"Harbinger of Aberration?" National Interest, Fall 2002, pp. 45-50 available on the web
"Public Support for Military Ventures Abroad: Evidence from the
Polls," in Robert T. Turner (ed.), The
Real
Lessons of the Vietnam War: Reflections Twenty-Five Years After the
Fall of
"American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion in a New Era:
Eleven
Propositions," in Barbara Norrander and
Clyde
Wilcox (eds.), Understanding
Public Opinion, 2nd edition (
"The Banality of 'Ethnic War,'" 25 International Security 42-70 (Summer 2000) available on the web
(with Karl Mueller) "The Methodology
of Mass
Destruction: Assessing Threats in the New World Order," 23 Journal
of
Strategic Studies 163-87 (March 2000); also published in Eric
Herring
(ed.), "Preventing
the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (
"The Rise of the Politically Incorrect One-Handed Economist,"
in
John Mueller (ed.), Peace,
Prosperity, and Politics (
"Public Opinion, War, and the Military," The
"The Rise, Decline, and Shallowness of Militant Nationalism
in
"Duelling Counterfactuals," in John Lewis Gaddis, Philip H. Gordon, Ernest R. May, and Jonathan Rosenberg (eds.), Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 (London: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 272-83 available on the web
(with Karl Mueller) "Sanctions of Mass Destruction," 78 Foreign Affairs 43-53 (May/June 1999) available on the web
"Democracy:
Optimal Illusions and Grim Realities," Research Monograph Series,
Center for the Study of Democracy,
"The Escalating Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons," in T.V. Paul,
Richard J. Harknett, and James J. Wirtz
(eds.), The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and
the Emerging
International Order (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press,
1998),
pp. 73-98
"The Common Sense," National Interest 81-88 (Spring
1997)
"Democracy, Capitalism, and the End of Transition," in Michael Mandelbaum (ed.), Post-Communism: Four
Perspectives
(New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1996), pp. 102-67
"Nine Propositions about the Historical Impact of Nuclear
Weapons," in Jørn Gjelstad
and Olav Njølstad
(eds.), Nuclear
Rivalry and International Order (London and Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage, 1996),
pp. 55-74
"Foreign Policy Principles for Unthreatened Wealth-seekers," Foreign
Policy 22-33 (Spring 1996)
"Capitalism and the Milk of Human Kindness," in Pavol Karasz, Jana Plichtová, Vladimír
Krivý (eds.), Economics &
Politics (Bratislava,
Slovakia: Slovak Committee of the European Cultural Foundation, 1995),
pp.
88-95
"Minorities and the Democratic Image," 9 East European
Politics
and Societies 513-22 (Fall 1995)
"Le concept de puissance et la politique
internationale depuis
la fin de
la guerre froide," 26 Études
internationales
711-27 (Décembre 1995). Also
published in Michel Fortmann, S. Neil MacFarlane, and
Stéphane Roussel
(eds.), Tous pour un ou chacun pour soi: Promesses et limites
de las coopération
régionale en matière
de sécurité (Québec: Institut
québécois des hautes études
internationales, 1996),
pp. 71-87.
"The Perfect Enemy: Assessing the Gulf War," 5 Security
Studies
77-117 (Autumn 1995)
"The Catastrophe Quota: Trouble After
the Cold
War," 38 Journal of Conflict Resolution 355-75, September 1994
(also in Polish in Spoeczestwo Otwarte,
"The Impact of Ideas on Grand Strategy," in Richard Rosecrance and Arthur A. Stein (eds),
The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University
Press, 1993), pp. 48-62
"American Public Opinion and the Gulf War," in
"American Public Opinion and the Gulf War: Some Polling Issues," 57 Public Opinion Quarterly 80-91, Spring 1993 available on the web
"Theory and Democracy" 36 American Journal of Political
Science
1015-22 (November 1992)
"Democracy and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery: Elections, Equality
and the
Minimal Human Being," 36 American Journal of Political Science
983-1003 (November 1992)
"Dueling, War and the Utility of Force: A Response to Akhtar Majeed," 23 Bulletin
of Peace Proposals 103-7 (March 1992)
"Quiet Cataclysm: Some Afterthoughts About
World
War III," 16 Diplomatic History 66-75 (Winter 1992). Also in
Michael J. Hogan (ed.), The End
of the Cold
War: Its Meaning and Implications (New York: Cambridge University
Press,
1992), pp. 39-52
"
"Preaching to the Choir: Strike Up
the Band
and War," essay in the liner notes for the 1991 recording of the Gershwin-Kaufman Strike Up
the Band
"Eaters, Watchers, and Revolutionaries," program note, Scottish
National Opera production of Marc Blitzstein's
"War: Natural, but not Necessary," in Robert A. Hinde (ed.), The Institution of War
(London:
Macmillan, 1991), pp. 13-29
"Changing Attitudes Towards War: The Impact of the First World
War," 21 British Journal of Political Science 1-28 (January
1991)
"Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, Morality, and War," in Charles W.
Kegley, Jr. and Kenneth L. Schwab (eds.), After
the Cold
War: Questioning the Morality of Nuclear Deterrence (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991), pp. 69-97
"
"Taking Peace Seriously: Two Proposals," in Robert Jervis and Seweryn Bialer
(eds.), Soviet-American
Relations After the Cold War (Durham,
NC: Duke
University Press, 1991), pp. 262-75
"The Obsolescence of Major War," 21 Bulletin of Peace
Proposals
321-28 (September 1990)
"A New Concert of
"The Essential Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons: Stability in the
Postwar
World," 13 International Security 55-79 (Fall 1988) available
on the web
"Trends in Political Tolerance," 52 Public Opinion Quarterly 1-25 (Spring 1988) available on the web
"Vietnam and the Mellowing of Containment: Implications for
American
Foreign Policy Attitudes," in George K. Osborn, Asa
A. Clark IV, Daniel J. Kaufman, and Douglas E. Lute (eds.), Democracy,
Strategy, and Vietnam: Implications for American Policymaking
(Lexington,
MA: Lexington, 1987), pp. 297-310.
"The Cold War Consensus: From Fearful Hostility to Wary
Contempt,"
in Richard A. Melanson and Kenneth W.
Thompson (eds.), Foreign Policy
and Domestic Consensus
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985), pp. 7-18
"Reassessment of American Policy,
1965-1968," in
Harrison E.
"Reflections on the Vietnam Protest Movement and on the Curious
Calm at the War's End," in Peter Braestrup
(ed.),
"A Summary of Public Opinion and the Vietnam War," in Peter Braestrup (ed.),
"
"The Search for the 'Breaking Point' in
"Public Expectations of War During
the Cold
War," 23 American Journal of Political Science 301-29 (May
1979)
"Changes in American Public Attitudes Toward International
Involvement," in Ellen Stern (ed.), The Limits of Military Intervention(Beverly
Hills, CA: Sage, 1977), pp. 323-44
"A Project Autobiography: War, Presidents, and Public Opinion,"
in
James N. Rosenau (ed.), In Search of
Global
Patterns (New York: Free Press, 1976), pp. 111-43
"Public Opinion and the President," in Rexford G. Tugwell and Thomas E. Cronin (eds.), The
Presidency Reappraised (New York: Praeger,
1974),
pp. 133-47
"Conclusions from the Public Opinion Polls: Comparisons with
"Trends in Popular Support for the Wars in
"Choosing Among 133 Candidates," 34 Public Opinion Quarterly 395-402 (Fall 1970) available on the web
"The Political Scientist Decides: An Examination of the 1969
APSA
Ballots," PS, Summer 1970, pp.
311-20
"Presidential Popularity from Truman to Johnson," 64 American
Political Science Review 18-34 (March 1970)
"Voting on the Propositions," 63 American Political Science
Review 1197-1212 (December 1969)
"The Use of Content Analysis in International Relations," in
George Gerbner (ed.), The
Analysis of Communication Content (New York: Wiley, 1969), pp.
187-97
"Fluoridation Attitude Change," 58 American Journal of
Public
Health 1876-82 (October 1968); reprinted in 28 The Health
Education
Journal (
"Incentives for Restraint:
"Some Comments on Russett's
`Discovering
Voting Groups in the United Nations,'" 61 American Political
Science
Review 146-48 (March 1967)
(with R.N. Rosecrance)
"Decision-Making and the Quantitative Analysis of International
Relations," Year Book of World Affairs 1967 (London: Stevens,
1967), pp. 1-19
"Il Fluoro della
Discordia," Mercurio
(Rome, December 1966) 34-38
"The Politics of Fluoridation in Seven California Cities," 19 Western
Political Quarterly 54-67 (March 1966)
"Suggestions for the Use of Simple Experimental Methods in
Political
Research," 18 Western Political Quarterly 42-43 (September
1965,
Supplement)
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE
"Salvador, Vietnam and Other Ventures," February 14, 1984
"Vietnam Involvement Was a Failure, Not a Folly," April 10, 1984
"Steering a Path Between Risks and Benefits to Life," August 13, 1984
"Lessons Learned Five Years After the Hostage Nightmare," November 6,
1984
"Crime Is Caused by the Young and Reckless," March 6, 1985
"The Bomb's Pretense as Peacemaker," June 4, 1985
"Backward Goes the Doomsday Clock," June 3, 1986
"Presidents and Terrorists Should Not Mix," March 31, 1987
"Arms Reduction: Don't Talk, Just Do It," June 1, 1988
"New, Improved Opiates for the Masses!"
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Dropping
Out of the War System,"
"In
"Democracy: All They Need to Do Is Catch the Bug," November 19, 1989
"Summit: A New Order May Not Need Much Order," November 28, 1989
"Perspective on `The Vision Thing': Stay the Benign, Unruffled
Course," May 14, 1990
"The Real Infamy Was an Unnecessary War," December 6, 1991
"If Killing Is Down, Are Guns Out? Are Dads In?"
"Depressed by Politics? Some Words of Cheer,"
"2,000
dead‑‑will it doom the war?"
"Dead and Deader," January 20, 2008
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Will
"A Quick Victory? It Better Be,"
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS IN THE
"False Alarms,"
"Cameras and Credibility,"
ARTICLES IN THE NEW REPUBLIC
"Conclusions from the Public Opinion Polls: Comparisons with
"Enough Rope: The Cold War Was Lost, Not Won,"
"Well Off: Good riddance, McCain-Feingold,"
ARTICLES IN REASON
"St. Phineas: How P.T. Barnum helped create business ethics," March 2001, pp. 54-57 available on the web
"What's the Rush?" "Suicide Watch," and "Deterring
the Egomaniac Dictator," three essays as part of an online debate with
Brink Lindsey, "Should We Invade
ARTICLE IN THE AMERICAN
"Democracy vs. Capitalism," March 2002, pp. 44-45
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN THE
"The Lonely Commander: President is threatening a war Americans
don't
want to fight,"
ARTICLES IN IDEAS OR CURRENTS SECTION OF THE SUNDAY
ARTICLES POSTED ON THE HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
The Politics of
Cutting and
Running,
Anti-War?
Unenthusiastic About Kerry? The Recipe for a
Bush
Victory, May 3, 2004
ARTICLES IN PERSPECTIVE SECTION OF THE
"The Art of a Deal: No Rewards for Iraqi Aggression,"
"Thoughts on a Quiet Cataclysm: Are we beyond global conflict?"
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN THE
"
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN THE
"
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMN IN AFTENPOSTEN (
(with Karl Mueller) "Nei
til masseødeleggelsessankjoner,"
FEATURE ARTICLES IN MOSTY (
"Pokojná kataklizma:
Tretiu svetovú
u máme za
sebou,"
"Pokojná kataklizma:
Honba za problémami,"
"Pokojná kataklizma:
Vojna: prirodzená,
ale nie nevyhnutná,"
"Pokojná kataklizma:
Nemoderná inštitúcia--vojna,"
"Pokojná kataklizma:
Predpovedané katastrofy,"
EDITORIAL PAGE COLUMNS ALSO IN
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
The Remnants of War
received the Joseph P. Lepgold Prize for the best book on international
relations in 2004, awarded by Georgetown University
Guggenheim Fellowship: Deterrence, Stability and the Potential
Obsolescence
of Major War, 1988
War, Presidents and Public Opinion selected as one of
the "Fifty
Books That Significantly Shaped Public Opinion Research, 1946-1995" by
the
American Association for Public Opinion Research, Public Opinion
Quarterly,
Fall 1995. Recipient of
the first Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in
Public Opinon Research presented by the Roper Center for Public Opinion
Research, November 8, 2007
Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching,
University of
Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society (1995)
Teacher of the Year,
National Science Foundation: Public Opinion in Wartime,
1967-68
National Science Foundation: Public Opinion in Wartime,
1968-70
National Science Foundation: Public Expectations About
War, 1974-75
Member,
OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Member, Board of Overseers, General Social Survey,
Contributor, Funk and Wagnalls
New Encyclopedia
Book reviews in New York Times Sunday Book Review, American
Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Armed
Forces and
Society, Political Science Quarterly, Rochester
Democrat and
Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Public Opinion Quarterly
Adviser, "
Official Representative, Inter-University Consortium for
Political and
Social Research, 1979-84
Co-Editor, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,
1985-89
Editorial Board, Public Opinion Quarterly,
1988-1991
Editorial Board, Journal of Cold War Studies,
1999-
Chairman, Department of Political Science, University of
Rochester,
1989-91
Participant, NATO Discussion Series, Atlantic Council,
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Polish and Central
European Studies,
Director,
Editorial Board,
PAPERS,
LECTURES, SEMINARS IN
POLITICAL SCIENCE SINCE 1986 (pdf)
AWARDS, HONORS IN DANCE AND FILM
de la Torre
Bueno Prize, presented by Dance
Perspectives Foundation, to
Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films
for
"the most distinguished book-length manuscript in the field of
dance," 1983
Listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in
DVDS PRODUCED
(Distributed by Dance
Film Archive,
Fire
Dance. 2004. Features the
famous Loïe Fuller solo from 1896 as
reconstructed and performed
by Jessica Lindberg. The DVD includes a studio performance of the
work, a
studio performance with audio commentary by Jessica Lindberg and Megan Slayter, a studio performance edited from
several camera
angles by Shawn Hove, a studio performance accompanied by the notated
score, a
live performance recorded from two camera angles which the viewer can
toggle
between using the angle button, a documentary on "Loïe
Fuller: Her Life and Art," a documentary on "Reconstructing Loïe Fuller's Fire Dance," and archival
films from
1897-1905 of Loïe Fuller and her
imitators. DVD authoring by Shawn Hove.
Gaîté Parisienne.
2006. Features Victor Jessen's film, taken between 1945 and 1955, of
performances of the famous Leonide Massine ballet by the Ballet Russe
de Monte Carlo.
Also audio commentary by one of the leading dancers of the era,
Frederic Franklin, a documentary on the ballet, a documentary on
Jessen, and an interview with Franklin. DVD authoring by
Shawn Hove. The DVD is distributed
commercially by Video Artists International as well as by OSU's
Dance Film Archive.
Symphonie Fantastique. 2008. Features a work film, with synchronized piano music of the Leonide Massine ballet in a 1949 performance by the Royal Danish Ballet. Includes explanatory titles. DVD authoring by Shawn Hove.
FILMS PRODUCED AND DIRECTED
(Distributed by Dance
Film Archive,
Afternoon of a Faun. 11 min., 1973
(still
photographs and drawings of the original Nijinsky
ballet synchronized with music score)
Dying Swan. 3 min., 1973 (still
photographs
synchronized with music score to show the original choreography by Fokine)
Light Part 5. 20 min., 1976 (filming of the Kei Takei dance
work as
performed by Takei and company)
Royal Danish Ballet 1902-1906. 14 min., 1979 (processing of
historic silent
film and addition of synchronized music)
The Traitor. 19 min., 1979
(processing of historic
silent film from 1955 showing a performance of the Jose Limon work as
danced by
the original cast, and synchronization of the music score)
Two Ecstatic Themes: Two Performances. 13 min., 1980 (filming
of the classic
Doris Humphrey solo as performed by Nina Watt and Carla Maxwell of the
Jose
Limon Dance Company)
Symphonie Fantastique.
51 min., 1980 (processing of a historic silent film of the Leonide
Massine ballet, and addition of
synchronized music)
St. Francis (Nobilissima Visione).
39 min., 1982 (processing of a historic silent film of the Leonide
Massine ballet as danced by the original cast, and addition of synchronized music)
Seventh Symphony. 32 min., 1982
(processing of a
historic silent film of the Leonide Massine ballet as danced by the original cast,
and addition of synchronized music)
Water Study. 22 min., 1982 (filming
of the classic
Doris Humphrey group work as performed by dancers under the direction
of
Ernestine Stodelle)
Bonnie Bird Demonstrates Graham Technique, 1938-39. 11 min.,
1986
(processing of historic silent film)
Gaite Parisienne.
38
min., 1986 (processing of historic film) (distributed 1988 in
videocassette by
Video Arts International,
PUBLICATIONS IN DANCE, FILM, AND MUSICAL THEATER: ARTICLES
"Dance on Film" in Mary Clark and David Vaughan (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet
(New
York: Putnam, 1977)
"The Value, Use, and Availability of Dance Films," in
"Filmed Dance and Dance Films," Ballett
1978 (
"The Oldest Ballet Movie," Dance Magazine, July 1979,
pp.
40-43
"Film and Videotape as Teaching Tools," Dance Critics'
Association
News, December 1979
"Is Giselle a Virgin?" Dance Chronicle Vol. 4, No. 2
(1981), pp. 151-54
"The Filmed Dances of Fred Astaire,"
Quarterly
Review of Film Studies, Vol. 6 (Spring 1981), pp. 135-54; reprinted
as
"Fred Astaire. Verfilming
van zijn dansnummers,"
Versus (
"Images de Nijinski," L'Avant-Scene Ballet/Danse
(Paris), no. 7, 1981
"Limon's Tormented Traitor," Dance Magazine, May 1981,
pp.
sc-26-30
"Watching an American Screen Original," Dance Magazine,
May
1984, pp. 131-35
"Fred Astaire and the Integrated
Musical," Cinema Journal, Fall
1984, pp.
28-40
Analytic lecture on the second sound track of The Criterion
Collection
laserdisc edition of the film, Swing Time (New York and
Los Angeles: Janus Films and Voyager
Press, 1986)
(with Don McDonagh),
"Making Musical Dance," Ballet
Review, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 1986),
pp. 23-44
"Fred Astaire," Encyclopedia
of World
Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987), pp. 73-74
"The Astaire Illusion," Dance
Magazine, November 1987, pp. 34-35
"The White Swan Adagio, " in Janice
Ross
and Stephen Cobbett Steinberg (eds.), Why
a Swan?
(San Francisco: San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, March
1989),
pp. 25-29
"Eaters, Watchers, and Revolutionaries," program note, Scottish
National Opera production of Marc Blitzstein's
"Preaching to the Choir: Strike Up
the Band
and War," essay in the liner notes for the 1991 recording of the Gershwin-Kaufman Strike Up the Band
"The Gershwins and the Astaires,"
essay in the liner notes for the 1992 recording of the Gershwins'
Lady, Be Good!
"Fred Astaire" in International
Encyclopedia
of Dance (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
"The Gershwin-Wodehouse
Connection,"
essay in programme for A Foggy Day, Shaw
Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1998
"Fred Astaire," American National
Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 693-95
"Ginger Rogers," American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 756-57
Full‑length
commentary track for the Fred Astaire‑Ginger
Rogers film, Swing Time,
released on DVD by Warner Home Video,
autumn 2005. Also interviewed for short documentaries later distributed
on the
Warner Home Video DVDs of Top Hat, Follow the Fleet, Swing Time, Shall We
Dance, and The Barkleys of
Broadway.
SCRIPTS FOR MUSICAL COMEDIES
A Foggy Day. A
musical comedy created by incorporating songs by George
and Ira Gershwin into a play by P. G. Wodehouse and Ian Hay. 1984.
Produced (under the title "Reaching for the Moon") by Eastman
Opera Theatre,
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, October 30-November 3, 1987 (7
performances).
Produced (co-written by Norm
Foster)
by the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, May
5-November 1,
1998 (126 performances).
Produced (co-written by Norm
Foster)
by the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, April
29-November
14, 1999 (135 performances).
One for My Baby.
An expansion and development for the stage of a film
script (The Sky's the Limit) adding songs mostly with lyrics by Johnny
Mercer.
1985. Professional reading, Geva Theatre,
GRANTS FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
"Development of Teaching Materials for Media-Based Dance
Appreciation
Courses" 1972-73
"Increasing the Availability of Dance Films" 1974-75
"Increasing the Availability of Dance Films" 1977-78
"Processing and Distributing Massine
Ballet
Films" 1979-81
OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES IN DANCE AND FILM
Director,
Dance
Film Archive, University of Rochester, 1983-2000, Ohio State University,
2000-
Faculty member at Dance Critics Institutes at American Dance
Festival,
Connecticut College and Duke University (1977-1980); University of
Texas;
London Dance Umbrella (1981); University of Iowa (1984); Dance in
Canada
Conference, Vancouver (1986)
Dance critic, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1974-82
Member, Dance Panel, New York State
Arts Council,
1976-78
Member, Advisory Board, Dance in
Participant, Film and Humanities Summer Institute, American
Film Institute (
Co-organizer and chief adviser, Early Years Dance Festival,
SUNY Purchase,
1981
Member of the Board, Dance Critics Association, 1983-85
Member, Dance Panel, National Endowment for the Arts,
1983-85
Editorial Board,
BOOK REVIEWS
William Langewiesche, The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the
Nuclear Poor. Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2007, pp. 55-56
Andrew J. Bacevich and Efraim
Inbar (eds.), The
Gulf War
of 1991 Reconsidered. Journal of Cold War Studies, Winter
2005, pp. 191-93
Mark E. Pietrzyk, International
Order and
Individual
Yahya Sadowski,
The Myth of Global Chaos. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
September 2000, pp. 206-7
Christopher, Coker, War and the Illiberal
Conscience.
International History Review, December 1999, pp. 1123-25
Charles Hamm, Irving Berlin: Songs from the Melting Pot: The
Formative
Years, 1907-1919. New York Times Sunday Book Review,
William H. McNeill, Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill
in Human
History. New York Times Sunday Book Review,
Richard Barrios, A Song in the
Dark: The Birth of
the Musical Film. New York Times Sunday Book Review,
Stephen Citron, Noel and Cole: The Sophisticates. New York
Times Sunday
Book Review,
Michael Howard, The Lessons of
History. American
Political Science Review, September 1992, pp. 842-43.
Ginger Rogers, Ginger: My Story. New York Times Sunday Book
Review,
Ellen Frey-Wouters and Robert S. Laufer, Legacy of a War: The American Soldier in
Allan E. Goodman, The Lost
Peace:
Herbert Y. Schandler, The
Unmaking of the President: Lyndon Johnson and
Klaus Knorr,
On the Uses of
Military Power in the Nuclear Age; Bernard Brodie,
Escalation and the Nuclear Option. American Political
Science Review,
December 1967, pp. 1109-10.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
"Public
Opinion and Policy in Wartime," Encyclopedia of War & American
Society (
"Should Campaign Financing Be Reformed? Campaign Finance Reform Is Not
Necessary" (Point/Counterpoint sidebar), Encarta, posted 2000
"Public Opnion," Funk &
Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, 1983
LECTURES/FILM
SHOWINGS ON FRED
ASTAIRE