Robert Sklar
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Robert Sklar (born 1936) is a historian specializing in the history of film.
Sklar began his career as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He received a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard University in 1965. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[1] He was a history professor at the University of Michigan and since 1977 has been a professor of cinema in the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
[edit] Books
- Film: An International History of the Medium (c. 1990)
- City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield (1992)
- Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (1975; revised 1994)
- Silent Screens : The Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater (2000)
- A World History of Film (2003)
- Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies. Vintage Books: New York, 1994
[edit] References
- ^ “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” January 30, 1968 New York Post
[edit] External links
- Robert Sklar at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
- Review of A World History of Film
