DENNIS GILES, Ph.D.
DOB June 20, 1944; DOD December 22, 1989
Dennis Giles Obituary, 1990
CURRICULUM VITAE
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH 44115
EDUCATION
1972: M.S., Radio, TV, & Film, University of Texas-Austin
1976: Ph.D., Film, Northwestern University (Dissertation: The retrieve: A theory of narrative structure with application to film)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Giles, Dennis. (1977). Pornographic space: The other place. In Film: Historical-theoretical speculations: The 1977 film studies annual: Part two (pp. 52-66). Pleasantville, NY: Redgrave.
Giles, Dennis. (1981). Show-making. In Rick Altman (Ed.), Genre: The musical (pp. 85-101). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul/British Film Institute.
Giles, Dennis. (1985). A structural analysis of the police story. In Stuart M. Kaminsky & Jeffrey H. Mahan (Eds.), American television genres (pp. 67-84). Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall.
Giles, Dennis, & Jackson-Beeck, Marilyn. (1985). Television, the evil eye. In Stuart M. Kaminsky & Jeffrey H. Mahan (Eds.), American television genres (pp. 191-202). Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall.
Giles, Dennis. (2004). Conditions of pleasure in horror cinema. In Barry Keith Grant & Christopher Sharrett (Eds.), Planks of reason: Essays on the horror film (Revised edition, pp. 36-49). Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Giles, Dennis. (1966). The Tao in Woman in the Dunes. Film Heritage, 1(3), 23-28.
Giles, Dennis. (1975). Kurosawa’s heroes. Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, 2, 270-299.
Giles, Dennis. (1976, Fall). Angel on fire: Three texts of desire. Velvet Light Trap, 16, 41-45.
Giles, Dennis. (1977). Hard times: The lack and the other. Film Reader, (2), 85-89.
Giles, Dennis. (1977, Spring). Show-making. Movie (London), 24, 14-25.
Giles, Dennis. (1978). The name “documentary”: A preface to genre study. Film Reader, (3), 18-23.
Giles, Dennis. (1978). The ghost of Thalberg: MGM 1946-1951. The Velvet Light Trap, 18, 8-14.
Giles, Dennis. (1979, Spring). Book review of The Celluloid Empire: A History of the American Movie Industry by Robert Stanley, Cinema Journal, 58(2), 53-58.
Giles, Dennis, & Sahin, Haluk. (1982). Yílmaz Güney: Revolutionary cinema in Turkey. Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, (27), 35-37.
Giles, Dennis. (1983). The outdoor economy: A study of the contemporary drive-in. Journal of the University Film and Video Association, 35(2), 66-76.
Giles, Dennis. (1985). Television reception. Journal of Film and Video, 37(3), 12-25.
Kraus, Sidney, & Giles, Dennis. (1989). Book review of Constructing the Political Spectacle by Murray Edelman. Political Psychology, 10, 517-525.
Perloff, Richard M., Neuendorf, Kimberly, Giles, `Dennis, Chang, Tsan-Kuo, & Jeffres, Leo W. (1992). Perceptions of “Amerika”. Mass Comm Review, 19(3), 42-48.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Giles, Dennis L. (1971). The end of cinema: Act and language in the films of Jean-Luc Godard.
Giles, Dennis. (1976, December). Pornographic film: Three texts of desire. Paper presented at the International Congrés de Psychanalyse, Milan, Italy.
Giles, Dennis. (1979). Untitled (about treatments of D. W. Griffith). Paper presented as part of a panel on the historiography of film at the 1979 Purdue Film Studies Conference, West Lafayette, IN.
Giles, Dennis. (1980). The ontological status of fiction in communication: A preface to the study of the Historieta. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Acapulco, Mexico.
Giles, Dennis. (1981, May). Videophobia, envy and the domestic triangle. Paper presented at the Fourth International Congress of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY.
Giles, Dennis. (1982, April). The drive-in economy: 1946-1981. Paper presented at the fifth annual Ohio University Film Conference, Athens, OH.
Giles, Dennis. (1982, June). The show of love: Some functions of spectacle in the Hollywood musical. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Giles, Dennis. (1983). A psychology of the drive-in. Lecture at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Giles, Dennis. (1983, May). Conditions of pleasure in horror cinema. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Pittsburgh, PA.
Giles, Dennis. (1985, November). Nature documentary: The cultural use of animal reality. Paper presented to the Ohio University Film Conference, Athens, OH.
Perloff, Richard M., Chang, Tsan-Kuo, Neuendorf, Kimberly A., Giles, Dennis, Jeffres, Leo, & Lee, Jae-Won. (1987, November). The public’s opinion about “Amerika’s” impact on the public. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, IL.
Neuendorf, Kimberly A., & Giles, Dennis L. (1989). Cultural identity and Amerika: National imaging and comparative media framing. In Richard Perloff (Ed.), ABC’s “Amerika”: Perception, reception, and effects (pp. 19-22). Cleveland, OH: Communication Research Center, Cleveland State University.
Jeffres, L., Neuendorf, K., & Giles, D. (1990, November). Film genre: Matching audience expectations with critical assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, IL.
OTHER WORKS
Giles, Dennis. (1974). Hollywood in the fifties: RKO & MGM. Paper prepared for History of Film course, Professor Paddy Whannel, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Giles, Dennis. (1977). The screen: Projection/protection. Proposal for a paper for the International Conference on the Cinematic Apparatus.
Giles, Dennis. (1980). Revenge and revolution: A study in melodrama. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Communication, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.
Giles, Dennis. (1988). 34 best films (a very personal list). Unpublished list, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.
Giles, Dennis. (n.d.). Framing, screening, screening-off: The status of fantasy in Dino De Laurentiis’ King Kong. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Communication, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.