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Name
  
Robert Sklar

Role
  
Historian


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Died
  
July 2, 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
Movie‑made America, Film, City Boys, A World History of Film, F Scott Fitzgerald - the last L

Education
  

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Robert Anthony Sklar (December 3, 1936 – July 2, 2011) was an American historian specializing in the history of cinema.

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Robert Anthony 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.

He was a history professor at the University of Michigan and since 1977 was a professor of cinema in the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

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Books

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoon (London: Oxford University Press, 1967)
  • Film: An International History of the Medium (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)
  • References

    Robert Sklar Wikipedia


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