Anthony Slide has published more than seventy books on the history of popular entertainment and is also the editor of the Scarecrow Press “Filmmakers” series, which consists of 125 volumes. In 1990, in recognition of his work on the history of popular culture, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Bowling Green University. At that time, Mr. Slide was hailed by Lillian Gish as “our preeminent historian of the silent film.”
