Jeffrey Vance
{{short description|American film historian and author|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Jeffrey Vance (born May 21, 1970) is an American film historian and author who has published books on movie stars including Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
Career
While working as an archivist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists he met Eleanor Keaton, Buster Keaton's widow, and began organizing her collection of photographs, leading to the illustrated biography Buster Keaton Remembered (2001).{{cite news|first=Dave|last=Kehr|title=At the Movies|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 August 2001|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/movies/at-the-movies.html|accessdate=8 August 2014}} He later served as archivist for the Chaplin family's Roy Export S.A.S.,"City Lights at the Dawn of the Talkies: An Interview with Jeffrey Vance" The AMNESP Academic Review Blog December 20, 2013 :http://blogs.bu.edu/confluence/2013/12/20/city-lights-vance/ The Harold Lloyd Trust, and the Mary Pickford Foundation Mary Pickford Foundation: http://marypickford.org/2013/03/jeffrey-vance-examining-archival-film-holdings/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211220703/http://marypickford.org/2013/03/jeffrey-vance-examining-archival-film-holdings/ |date=February 11, 2015 }} where he helped preserve both film and photographs from these important collections. As a producer, he packaged the Harold Lloyd Classic Comedies for Turner Classic Movies, later released to home video. As a filmmaker, he produced and directed the short film Rediscovering John Gilbert (2010) which aired on cable television as well as released to home video.{{cite web|url=http://2014.filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/special-guests/jeffrey-vance/|title = Classical Film Festival Hollywood 2014 Special Guest: Jeffrey Vance|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008181835/http://2014.filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/special-guests/jeffrey-vance/|archive-date=October 8, 2014}}
Publications
- Buster Keaton Remembered (Harry N. Abrams, 2001){{cite news|first=Ted|last=Loos|date=8 April 2001|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/bib/010408.rv100709.html|title=A Hat Comes With It|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=8 August 2014}}
- Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian (Harry N. Abrams, 2002){{cite news|first=Ted|last=Loos|title=A Matter of Attitude|newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 July 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-a-matter-of-attitude.html}}
- Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema (Harry N. Abrams, 2003),{{cite news|first=David|last=Walton|title=Impossibly Large Shoes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-impossibly-large-shoes.html|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=8 August 2014|date=18 January 2004}}
- Douglas Fairbanks (UC Press/Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2008){{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-feb-05-et-book5-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Carolyn | last=Kellogg | title='Douglas Fairbanks' by Jeffrey Vance | date=February 5, 2009}}
- A Star Is Born: Judy Garland and the Film That Got Away (TCM/Running Press, 2018){{cite book |last1=Luft |first1=Lorna |last2=Vance |first2=Jeffrey |title=A STAR IS BORN |date=18 September 2018 |publisher=Running Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=9780762464807 |page=248 |url=https://www.runningpress.com/titles/lorna-luft/a-star-is-born-turner-classic-movies/9780762464807/ |accessdate=30 September 2018}}
DVD/Blu-ray commentaries
- The Circus (1928 film) (Criterion Collection 2019)
- Animal Crackers (Universal Pictures 2016)
- City Lights (Criterion Collection 2013)
- The Big Parade (Warner Home Video 2013)
- On Approval (Inception Media 2013)
- The Thief of Bagdad (Cohen Film Collection 2013)
- Grand Hotel (Warner Home Video 2013)
- The Gold Rush (Criterion Collection 2012)
- Sparrows (Milestone Film & Video 2012)
- Bardelys the Magnificent (Flicker Alley 2009)
- Midnight Mary (Warner Home Video 2009)
- A Modern Musketeer (Flicker Alley 2008)
- Picture Snatcher (Warner Home Video 2008)
- ''Night Nurse(Warner Home Video 2008)
- The Divorcee (Warner Home Video 2008)
- The Mysterious Lady (Warner Home Video 2005)
- Spite Marriage (Warner Home Video 2004)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1084708|Jeffery Vance (II)}}
- [http://blog.sfgate.com/tgladysz/2012/07/08/film-historian-jeffrey-vance-talks-about-douglas-fairbanks/ Jeffrey Vance interview: Douglas Fairbanks]
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfhDtyV6zU
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Category:American film historians