Gilbert Seldes photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932
Gilbert Vivian Seldes (/ˈsɛldəs/;[1] January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC television program The Subject is Jazz (1958). He also wrote for other magazines and newspapers like Vanity Fair and the Saturday Evening Post. He was most interested in American popular culture and cultural history. He wrote and adapted for Broadway, including Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1930s. 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.
He spent his career analyzing popular culture in America, advocating cultural democracy, and subsequently, calling for public criticism of the media. Near the end of his life, he quipped, "I've been carrying on a lover's quarrel with the popular arts for years ... It's been fun. Nothing like them."[2]
^Marian Seldes on her father theater critic & columnist Gilbert Seldes ~ Stephen Holt Show. Retrieved April 26, 2024 – via www.youtube.com. 4:16
Gilbert Vivian Seldes (/ˈsɛldəs/; January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama...
enumeration page including household of GilbertSeldes and documentation relating to his 19-month-old daughter Marian H. Seldes, Manhattan Borough, New York City...
critic GilbertSeldes was George Seldes's younger brother. Actress Marian Seldes was his niece; his nephew was the literary agent Timothy Seldes. He was...
GilbertSeldes (1893–1970), American writer and cultural critic, brother of George Marian Seldes (1928–2014), American actress, daughter of Gilbert Paul...
occasional investigation of comics as a valid art form, specifically in GilbertSeldes' The 7 Lively Arts (1924), Martin Sheridan's Comics and Their Creators...
Several managing editors worked for The Dial during the twenties: GilbertSeldes (1922–23), Kenneth Burke (1923), Alyse Gregory (1923–25). Due to Thayer's...
popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience among those in the arts. GilbertSeldes' article "The Krazy Kat Who Walks by Himself" was the earliest example...
the influential book of the same name written by the cultural critic GilbertSeldes, in which he argued that the low arts (comics, vaudeville) deserved...
widely praised by intellectuals and treated as "serious" art. Art critic GilbertSeldes wrote a lengthy panegyric to the strip in 1924, calling it "the most...
investigate Profiles's authorship. In May 1957, two weeks after the award, GilbertSeldes discussed the rumor that Kennedy had not written the book in The Village...
The show did receive a somewhat favorable review from noted critic GilbertSeldes in the December 15, 1962 TV Guide: "The whole notion on which The Beverly...
trees that guaranteed the brummagem umbrageousness of Riverside Drive". GilbertSeldes, in his 1924 book The Seven Lively Arts, wrote in praise of Krazy Kat:...
American literature, writing that it had "set [him] back twenty years". GilbertSeldes, who first published the poem in the US, and Pound, its editor, both...
highly acclaimed Disney short films. Esquire magazine cultural critic GilbertSeldes wrote that "[none of] dozens of works produced in America at the same...
(1936). "Sawdust Caesar; The Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism. By GilbertSeldes. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1935. Pp. xv, 459.)". American Political...
Frieda Inescort and Edward G. Robinson. The adaptation was written by GilbertSeldes, who employed a narrator (Godfrey Tearle) to fill in gaps in the story...
Last. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1934. ISBN 978-0-598-58940-8. (With GilbertSeldes Preface) The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner. Charles Scribner's...
cooperation with the Educational Television and Radio Center. Hosted by GilbertSeldes with the musical direction of Billy Taylor, the show featured prominent...
broadcasting from Shabolovka Ulitsa television center, in Moscow (USSR). May – GilbertSeldes becomes the first television critic, with his Atlantic Monthly magazine...
American poet, editor, and professor of English literature. Along with GilbertSeldes, Mitchell’s editorship of The Dial magazine signaled a pivotal shift...
He becomes, in effect, the "tricky and roguish" character cited by GilbertSeldes as the quintessence of the comic strip. I worked for a syndicate manager...
as well as his parallel interest in children's culture. Referring to GilbertSeldes' Seven Lively Arts (1924) which championed the aesthetic merits of popular...
1917) 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886) 1970 – GilbertSeldes, American writer and cultural critic (b. 1893) 1972 – Kathleen Clarke...
Lincoln MacVeagh, Arthur Wilson (later known as Winslow Wilson) and GilbertSeldes. A large dormitory for freshmen at Harvard, in which E. E. Cummings...
Fall semester of 1959 and graduated in the Spring semester of 1960. GilbertSeldes was the first dean at the school, serving from 1959 until 1963. George...
Roberts (Honorary 2016) – Billionaire, chairman, and CEO of Comcast GilbertSeldes (Honorary 1960) – writer, cultural critic, and founding dean of the...
Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry GilbertSeldes, Against Revolution George Sylvester Counts, Dare the School Build a...
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