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6803 Dartmouth Avenue

College Park Maryland 20740

(301) 405-9209 (work number)

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Cynically Sentimental (Movie Review Blog, mostly)

Compelling Imagery (Popular Culture Art Analysed)

We're Moving!! As of January 2023, I will no longer have the ability to maintain/update my "terpconnect" websites. I'm not sure how long they'll remain up. I will be re-creating most of my pages elsewhere (probably https://davewiltfilms.net) but it may take a while.

If you want to be notified of the new URLs, drop me a line at DWilt@davewiltfilms.net (note: I will only be using this email for website updates so I won't be monitoring it much) Thank you for being with us for nearly 30 years!

Education:

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, December 1991. Department of Radio, Television and Film. Dissertation: "Stereotyped images of United States citizens in Mexican cinema, 1930-1990"
M.L.S., University of Maryland, College Park, May 1985. College of Library and Information Services.
M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, December 1980. Department of Communication Arts and Theatre. Thesis: "Driving the Rough Road : the Outlaw Couple in American Film"
B.A., University of Maryland, College Park, May 1977. Department of Speech and Dramatic Art. With Honors.

Books:

Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Films, 1939-1945 (1987) with Michael Shull
Hard Boiled in Hollywood: Five "Black Mask" Writers and the Movies (1991)
Hollywood War Films 1937-1945 (1996) with Michael Shull [paperback edition, summer 2006]
Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences and Engineering Information Sources(1996) co-editor
Mondo Macabro (Titan Books, 1997 [U.K.], published by St. Martin's Press in U.S., 1998)--contributor
Mexican Horror Cinema (Agrasánchez Film Archive, 1999)--contributor.
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film (Columbia University Press, 2004)--contributor.
The Mexican Filmography, 1916-2001 (McFarland and Company, 2004).[Paperback edition published, 2010]
Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Films, 1939-1945(revised and updated second edition, 2004, McFarland & Co.)
"El Santo: the Case of a Mexican Multi-media Idol." in Film and Comic Books (University Press of Mississippi, 2007).
"Based on a True Story: Reality-Based Mexican Exploitation Movies" in Latsploitation, Latin America, and Exploitation Cinema (Routledge, April 2009).
"The Black Typewriter: Who Wrote Film Noir?" in Companion to Film Noir (Blackwell, September 2013)
"Novelty Press Mobilizes Its Readers" and "How Comic Books Helped Boys and Girls Help Win the War" in The Ten Cent War(University Press of Mississippi, January 2017)
"Mexican James Bond Films" in Global James Bond: (Re)Imagining and Transplanting a Global Icon. (eds. Lisa Funnell, Klaus Dodds) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (forthcoming, 2023).

Conference Papers and Public Presentations:

"The OCIAA and the Mexican Film Industry." Literature/Film Association Conference, June 1991.
"Hunters and the Hunted: Images of the U.S. Military and the Japanese Foe in Hollywood Film." Conference of Army Historians, June 1994. with Michael Shull.
"Popular Music and World War Two." World War Two Association Conference, May 1995.
"When the War is Over: Images of the Postwar World in Hollywood Films, 1942-45." Siena World War Two Conference, May 1995. with Michael Shull.
"Brown, Black and White: The Issue of Race in Mexican Cinema." Fifth Conference on Latin American Popular Culture, October 1996.
"Uncle Joe Joins the Family: Images of Soviet Russia in Hollywood Cinema during WWII." IAMHIST International Conference, July 1997.
"All We Want is the Oil: Rosa Blanca and Mexican Cinema Images of Foreign Oil Exploitation." 4th International Congress of the Americas, September 1999.
"How to Make a Monster: Indigenous Themes and Motifs in Mexican Fantasy Films." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, May 2001.
"Who Was That Masked Man?" Presentation at Albright College, 28 October 2003 as part of the "Mexico Illuminated" series.
"Mexico de mis horrores." Presentation at the "Futuro + Acá" conference, Mexico City, 26 November 2003.
Presenter, "A Series of Mexican Vintage Sci-Fi and Horror Films," part of "Viva Mexico Washington DC Celebrates" Series, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, July 2004.
Presenter, "Pest Fest" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June-July 2006.
"Stay on the Farm! Perils of Migration in Mexican Cinema." Memories of Modernity: an International Conference on Hispanic Cinemas, Stony Brook Manhattan, November 2006.
"Based on A True Story: Mexican Cinema and Real Life." Latsploitation Workshop, University of Alberta, June 2007.
Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2007.
Research and Program Assistance, PAF (Animation Festival) Olomouc, Czech Republic, December 2007.
Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2008.
Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2009.
"De tal palo, tal astilla: Journeys to and from the Mother Country." Geographical Imaginaries and Hispanic Film Conference, New Orleans, November 2009.
Guest presenter, Mexican Film section, RiverRun International Film Festival 2010, Winston-Salem, NC, April 2010.
Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2010.
Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2011.
Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2012.
Guest presenter, "Citizen Kane"; "Reel Portraits" film series, National Portrait Gallery, June 2012.
Panelist, "La Pantalla Cómica" film series, Gala Hispanic Theatre, Washington DC, 12 October 2012.
"For All the World to See: International Literary Adaptations in Mexican Cinema During WWII." Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, York, PA. 13 October 2012.
"Nuyorican Cinema: Cine de Autoexilio." Congreso Internacional Hispanic Cinemas: En Transición, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. 8 November 2012.
Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2013.
Guest presenter, "Cinema South of the Border"; Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival, November 2014.
Guest presenter, "Days of Heaven"; Smithsonian American Art Museum, 19 May 2018.
Presenter, "The Exorcist's Power," Profs & Pints presentation, 8 October 2018.
Presenter, "The Exorcist's Power," Profs & Pints presentation, 21 October 2019. (encore presentation)
Presenter, "The Exorcist's Power," Profs & Pints presentation, 9 October 2020. (online pandemic version)
Presenter, "The Exorcist's Washington," GWU Museum "DC Mondays," 26 October 2020. (online pandemic version)
Presenter, "The Exorcist's Power," Profs & Pints presentation, 19 October 2021 (encore, encore version)
Presenter, "Lights, Santa, Action," Profs & Pints presentation, 14 December 2021
Guest, "Twitch of the Death Nerve" podcast, episode 21 (March 2022)
Presenter, "The Exorcist's Power," Profs & Pints presentation, 25 October 2022 (encore, encore, encore version) Articles:
Blu-ray and DVD reviews, Screem magazine 2011-2022
"Chulas fronteras"--National Film Registry essay .
"Vampires Over Istanbul, Tokyo and Mexico City" Screem #22 (Spring 2011)
"Women Rule, Men Drool: Matriarchal Societies on Film" Screem #20 (Spring 2010)
"The Weird World of Mexcinema" Screem #19 (Fall 2009)
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (retrospective review) Screem #18 (2009)
"Drawing the Line" (book review) Labor History 50/1 (February, 2009)
"Mexican Fantasy Films: The Best of the Rest" Screem #17 (2008).
"The Dracula Saga." Screem #16 (2008).
"The World of the Vampires." Screem #15 (2007).
"El Diablo Made Me Do It." Screem #14 (2007).
"Mexican Biker-Punk Films." Screem#13 (2006).
"The Other Salazar: Film Career of Alfredo Salazar." Screem #12 (2006)
"Hades--Vida después de la muerte." Screem #11 (2005)
"Contemporary Cinema" (book review) H-Film (March 1999) (originally published in Film & History)
"Poet of Civic Courage: the films of Franceso Rosi" (book review) H-Film (June 1998).
"Mexican Fantasy Films." Cinefantastique (May 1996).
"The Baron of Terror: Abel Salazar" Filmfax (Spring 1996)
"Los Vampiros."Imagi-Movies (Winter 1994)
"Cantinflas: Unknown Idol." The Big Reel (March 1994)
"The Western in Mexico." The Big Reel (September 1992)
"Beyond Infinity at Empire Pictures."Cinefantastique (March 1989)
"Earl Owensby, America's 3-D King." Cinefantastique (September 1983)

Miscellaneous:

Video introductions for VCI Blu-rays, 2021-22: Night of the Bloody Apes/Doctor of Doom; El Santo Box Set; Mary, Mary Bloody Mary & Night of 1,000 Cats; El escapulario;Ladrón de cadáveres; Aztec Mummy Collection; Ensayo de un crimen; La sombra del caudillo
Audio commentary El corazón y la espada Blu-ray from 3D Film Archive (2019).
Audio commentary Survive! Blu-Ray from Shout Factory (July 2018).
DVD liner notes for CasaNegra Entertainment DVDs (2007): El hombre y el monstruo, El grito de la muerte and (2006): El espejo de la bruja, El barón del terror, La maldición de la Llorona, Chabelo y Pepito contra los monstruos, Chabelo y Pepito detectives, Pepito y la lámpara maravillosa, El vampiro/El ataúd del vampiro, Misterios de ultratumba
DVD liner notes for BCI DVDs: Ladrones de tumbas, Cementerio del terror, Muñecos infernales, Horripilante bestia humana (2006).
DVD liner notes for The Santo Collection (2003).
Editor and publisher, THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN (1994-present)
Contributor or former contributor to: SCREEM, CINEFANTASTIQUE, FILM & HISTORY, LABOR HISTORY, FILMFAX, IMAGI-MOVIES, THE BIG REEL, SANTO STREET, SANTO SCENE and THE WASHINGTON POST
Peer reviewer (articles, book proposals) for Modern Languages Open (journal), Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor & Francis

Film and Television Show Appearances

"The Wonder World of K. Gordon Murray in Colorscope" (2010): interviewee in documentary film. Official website.
"Santa Claus Conquers the Devil: A 50-Year Retrospective" (2009): interviewee in documentary film included on the MST3K Vol. XVI DVD.
"Mondo Macabro"--Mexican Horror Films episode (2002): talking head (can also be seen on the British DVD releases of "Alucarda" and "El vampiro"). A somewhat revised version of my interview can be seen on the USA release (on DVD) of "Alucarda."
"Cartoons Go to War" TV special (shown on A&E cable network, August 1995): consultant and talking head *** Websites:**
Nuyorican Films
The Films of El Santo [revised 2021!]
The Christa Linder-Elizabeth Campbell-Amadee Chabot Page
Juan López Moctezuma, Director, etc. All accessible from The Mexican Film Resource Page.

Employment:

Systems Librarian, Digital Systems & Stewardship, University of Maryland Libraries: December 2009-December 2022
Professorial Lecturer in Film Studies, George Washington University: 2008-present. Previous positions:
Head of Circulation & Serials, Engineering & Physical Sciences Library, University of Maryland Libraries : January 1986-December 2009. [Acting Head of EPSL, September 2005-October 2006]
Circulation Desk Supervisor, McKeldin Library, UMCP
Public Information Specialist, Food Safety & Quality Service, USDA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept of Communication Arts and Theatre, Univ of MD
WMUC Radio: Sports Director, Special Programs Producer, Record Librarian, Disk Jockey, Sports Reporter/Play-by-play announcer, 1973-1980

Photos (new pics added 8/2016).

Updated 27 October 2022.