Beard, William R. 1946-
BEARD, William R. 1946-
PERSONAL:
Born December 21, 1946, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; married Wendy Kersteen (a schoolteacher). Education: University of Alberta, B.A., 1967; University of California—Berkeley, M.A., 1969; King's College, London, Ph.D., 1974.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Department of English and Film, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E6, Canada. E-mail—william.beard@ualberta.ca.
CAREER:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, professor of English and film, 1976—.
MEMBER:
Film Studies Association of Canada (member of executive board, 2000—).
WRITINGS:
Persistence of Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood, University of Alberta Press (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 2000.
The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2001.
(Editor, with Jerry White) North of Everything: English Canadian Cinema since 1980, University of Alberta Press (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 2002.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Choice, November, 2000, A. Hirsh, review of Persistence of Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood, p. 541; February, 2002, T. Lindvall, review of The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg, p. 1055.
Science-Fiction Studies, July, 2002, Suzie S. F. Young, review of The Artist as Monster, p. 298.
University of Toronto Quarterly, winter, 2001, Anne Lancashire, review of Persistence of Double Vision, p. 353.