FEATURED AUTHOR
Robert P. Kolker
I have been teaching film for many years and am now devoting my time to writing.
Subjects: Media and Cultural Studies
Biography
I have taught many years at the University of Maryland and then Georgia Tech, and, more recently, at the University of Virginia where I offered online courses in film.I am the author of:
A Cinema of Loneliness
The Altering Eye
Bernardo Bertolucci
The Cultures of American Film
co-author of The Films of Wim Wenders
editor of The Oxford Handbook of Film & Media Studies
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook
2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays
Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (with Nathan Abrams)
Education
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PhD Columbia University, English Literature, 1969
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Film and cultural studies
Personal Interests
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Reading, watching films, computing
Books
Articles
"The Long Reach of Short Cuts"
Published: Oct 17, 2015 by A Companion to Robert Altman
Authors: Robert Kolker
Discussion of films that were influenced by "Short Cuts"
"The Imaginary Museum: Martin Scorsese’s Film Documentaries”
Published: Nov 17, 2014 by A Companion to Martin Scorsese
Authors: Robert Kolker
Discussion of Martin Scorsese's film documentaries
"Rage for Order: Kubrick's Fearful Symmetry"
Published: Jun 17, 2010 by Raritan
Authors: Robert Kolker
Discussion of Kubrick's imagery and influence