FRANK SCHEIDE

• Professor of Communication, Univ of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• Author of Introductory Film Criticism : A Historical Perspective
•                 T he Dictator and the Tramp , (with Hooman Mehran)
  
•                 Chaplin’s Limelight and the Music Hall Tradition, (with Hooman Mehran)
•                 The Chaplin Persona:  Invention, Evolution, and Imitation (forthcoming), (with Hooman Mehran)
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• Producer of the 15-hour Telecom course The Comedy of Chaplin and Keaton

     Frank received a Ph.D. in Communications Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; an MA in Cinema Studies, at New York University; and has taught film history and criticismon the university level for over twenty five years.  His
specialization is silent film history, and his doctoral dissertation focused on the early life and films of Charlie Chaplin.  He has developed two college courses on the art of Chaplin and Keaton, and has spoken on their work to numerous groups and organizations in the United States and England, including the Museum of the Moving Image in London.