Slide Film And Landscapes?

I have found that an incident meter works best.

If you use a spot meter then you can expose for the highlights as long as they are not way brighter than the overall scene. I use spot meters, however, I prefer to use a incident meter if I can get myself into the same light that is illuminating the scene.

You also might do a search for Zone System for Slides, etc.

"How exactly would this work if I were photographing a typical landscape under bright sunlight? Wouldn't the sky be blown out, and/or the foreground be pitch black?"

Yes. Keep in mind if you are faced with that kind of landscape you are going to have to have a Graduated Neutral Density filter. Slide film has very little lattitude.

http://www.mountainlight.com/filters.html

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What kind of slide film?

Don't be using that movie film that has been repackaged for 35mm cameras, it does not have an anti-scratch coating.

When slide film is processed, there is no negative. Negative film gives the lab a chance to correct your mistakes, by averaging out the lighting.

Meter it and bracket in 1/2 f-stops.

i read my palm in the bright light (highlight), when the camera says its 1 stop over i know the exposure is correct

mid grey is zone 5, every human beings palm in the world is zone 6, so make the meter read +1 or a stop over and your exposures will be correct