Gene D. Phillips

Gene D. Phillips, S.J. (March 3, 1935 – August 29, 2016) was an American author, educator, and Catholic priest.^[1][2][3]

Gene D. Phillips S.J.
Born	March 3, 1935 Springfield, Ohio
Died	Monday, August 29, 2016 Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Occupation(s)	priest, professor, and author
Organization	Society of Jesus
Known for	books on filmmakers, literature and film

Life and career

Phillips was raised near Springfield, Ohio. He received his A.B. and M.A. (1957) degrees from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Fordham University in 1970.^[4] Phillips was a member of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), and was ordained a priest in 1965.^[2] His decision to become a Jesuit at age 17 was strongly affected by his viewing of the film The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) as a boy.^[1] Since 1970 Phillips had taught at Loyola University of Chicago. He had written or edited more than 20 books on filmmakers and film (see bibliography); several of these have been reviewed by major newspapers.^[5][6][7]

Phillips had served on juries at the Cannes, Berlin, and Chicago International Film Festivals. He had been a member of the editorial board for the journal Literature/Film Quarterly since its founding in 1973;^[2] this journal claims to be "the longest standing international journal devoted to the study of adaptation" (i.e. the adaptation of literature to film).^[8] Phillips had been a prolific author of biographical books on filmmakers, and had published extended interviews with many filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang,^[9] and Joseph Losey. He was also a friend, champion and consultant for director Ken Russell, and author of the book Ken Russell (Twayne Publishers, 1979). Phillips was a consultant for The Devils (Russell, 1971) and famously defended the film against charges of blasphemy saying, in the documentary Hell On Earth - The Desecration and Resurrection of The Devils (Mark Kermode, 2002), that the film depicts blasphemy, although it is not itself blasphemous.

Bibliography

• The Movie Makers: Artists in an Industry. Burnham Inc Pub. 1973. ISBN 978-0-911012-43-9.
• Graham Greene: Films of His Fiction. Teachers' College Press. 1974. ISBN 978-0-8077-2376-0.
• Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey. Popular Library. 1977. ISBN 978-0-445-04101-1.
• Evelyn Waugh's Officers, Gentlemen, and Rogues: The Fact Behind His Fiction. Nelson-Hall Publishers. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88229-495-7. Reviewed by James F. Carens.^[10]
• Ken Russell. Twayne. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8057-9266-9.
• The Films of Tennessee Williams. Art Alliance Pr. 1980. ISBN 978-0-87982-025-1.
• Hemingway and Film. Ungar Publishing Co. 1980. ISBN 978-0-8044-6644-8.
• John Schlesinger. Twayne Publishers. 1981. ISBN 978-0-8057-9280-5.
• George Cukor. Twayne. 1982. ISBN 978-0-8057-9286-7.
• Alfred Hitchcock. Twayne. 1984. ISBN 978-0-8057-9301-7. Reviewed by Karen Jaehne.^[11] Subscription required.
• Fiction, Film and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Loyola University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-8294-0500-2.
• Conrad and Cinema: The Art of Adaptation. Peter Lang. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8204-3915-0.
• Exiles in Hollywood: Major European Film Directors in America. Lehigh University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-934223-49-2.
• Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Lehigh University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-934223-59-1.
• Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir. University Press of Kentucky. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8131-9042-6. Reviewed by A. Mary Murphy.^[12]
• Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation. Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-57233-166-2.
• (editor) Stanley Kubrick: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. 2001. ISBN 978-1-57806-297-3.^{[permanent dead link]} - Wikipedia article on book: Fiction, Film, and Faulkner
• (edited with Rodney Hill) The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick. Checkmark Books. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8160-4389-7. Reviewed by Richard Schickel.^[6]
• Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola. University Press of Kentucky. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8131-2304-2. Reviewed by Richard Simon Chang.^[5]
• (edited with Rodney Hill) Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. 2004. ISBN 978-1-57806-666-7.
• Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean. University Press of Kentucky. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8131-2415-5. Reviewed by Gregory McNamee.^[7]
• Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder. University Press of Kentucky. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8131-2570-1. Reviewed by Laurence Raw.^[13]