Sklar, Robert
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Name (Latin)
Sklar, Robert
Other forms of name
Sklar, Bob
Date of birth
1936-12-03
Date of death
2011-07-02
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
Ph.D., Harvard, 1965
b. 1936
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Sources of Information
- New York times WWW site, July 7, 2011(in obituary published July 6: Robert Sklar; b. Robert Anthony Sklar, Dec. 3, 1936, New Brunswick, N.J.; known as Bob; d. Saturday [July 2, 2011], Barcelona, aged 74; film scholar whose 1975 book Movie-made America was one of the first histories to place Hollywood films in a social and political context, finding them a key to understanding how modern American values and beliefs have been shaped)
- His F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1967.
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Robert Sklar on City Cinematheque (1999)
CUNY TV; City Cinematheque, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikipedia description:
Robert Anthony Sklar (December 3, 1936 – July 2, 2011) was an American historian and author specializing in the history of cinema. 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 in 1977, became a professor of cinema in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
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