Robert Sklar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Sklar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Sklar |
| SIGNATURE | SKLAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style
Intellectual, cultural, and film historians have long considered the founding block of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the traditional story goes, was an Italian film style born in the second postwar period and aimed at recovering the reality of Italy after the sugarcoated moving images of Fascism. Lasting from 1945 to the early 1950s, produced world-renowned masterpieces such as Roberto Rossellini's Roma, citta aperta (Rome, Open C…
Hollywood Utopia
Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
Journal Article Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918–1934. By David E. Ruth. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. x, 190 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-22673217-7. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-73218-5.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 2…
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics
Journal Article Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics. By Stephen Vaughn. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv, 359 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-521-44080-7.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 329–330, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082114 Published: 01 June 199…
The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941
Journal Article The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941. By James L. Baughman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. XX + 257 pp. Cloth, $38.95, ISBN 0-80184276-X. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8018-4277-8.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield
Journal Article City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield. By Robert Sklar. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xiv + 311 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-69104795-2.) Get access John S. Whitley John S. Whitley University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 323–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079821 Published: 01 June 199…
Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten
Journal Article Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. By Bernard F. Dick. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. viii + 264 pp. $27.00.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1324–1325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936707 Published: 01 March 1990
Oh! Althusser: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies
Research Article| May 01 1988 Oh! Althusser!: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies Robert Sklar Robert Sklar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1988) 1988 (41): 11–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1988-41-11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Sklar; Oh! Althusser!: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies. Radica…
This Sporting Life
Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film
Broadcast Programming
Susan Tyler Eastman, Sydney Head and Levis Klein, Broadcast Programming: Strategies for Winning Television and Radio Audiences (Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth Publishing, 1981---$16.95) Charles Clift and Archie Greer, eds. Broadcast Programming: The Current Perspective (Washington: University Press of America, 1980---$8.50, paper) Robert Sklar, Prime-Time America: Life on and Behind the Television Screen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980---$15.95…
Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film-both before and behind the camera-from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South…
The Manipulators: America in the Media Age
Journal Article The Manipulators: America in the Media Age. By Robert Sobel. (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976. xxii + 458 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $9.95.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 2, September 1977, Pages 499–500, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901927 Published: 01 September …
Movie-made America: A cultural history of American movies
A Cast of Thousands
Movie-Made America
Journal Article Movie-Made America. By Robert Sklar. (New York: Random House, 1975. vii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.95.) Get access John Cawelti John Cawelti University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 2, September 1976, Pages 450–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899722 Published: 01 September 1976
Documentary: Artifice in the Service of Truth
Roosevelt's Image Brokers: Poets, Playwrights, and the Use of the Lincoln Symbol
Journal Article Roosevelt's Image Brokers: Poets, Playwrights, and the Use of the Lincoln Symbol By Alfred Haworth Jones. (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1974. 134 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $8.95.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September 1975, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.…
"The Problem of an American Studies "Philosophy: A Bibliography of New Directions
MY MANDATE IS TO WRITE A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY of in the 1970s. The assignment brings to mind an old story about an 18th century guidebook to Aspiring to a complete taxonomy, it listed all species a thorough guidebook ought to have, regardless of their status in Under the entry for turtles, the guidebook stated, There are no turtles in Iceland. Perhaps under the entry for philosophy the Studies guidebook should be just as parsim…
A New Record of American Civilization
Harlem Renaissance
Journal Article Harlem Renaissance. By Nathan Irvin Huggins. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. xi + 343 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $8.95.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888460 Published: 01 June 1972
From Self to Society, 1919-1941
Journal Article From Self to Society, 1919–1941. By Robert M. Crunden. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972. xii + 212 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 761–762, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900745 Published: 01 December 1972
American Studies and the Realities of America
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Last Laocoon
Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation
The development of political parties in Nigeria during the terminal phase of British colonial rule. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editio…
Movie-made America: A cultural history of American movies
This Sporting Life
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Last Laocoon
"The Problem of an American Studies "Philosophy: A Bibliography of New Directions
MY MANDATE IS TO WRITE A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY of in the 1970s. The assignment brings to mind an old story about an 18th century guidebook to Aspiring to a complete taxonomy, it listed all species a thorough guidebook ought to have, regardless of their status in Under the entry for turtles, the guidebook stated, There are no turtles in Iceland. Perhaps under the entry for philosophy the Studies guidebook should be just as parsim…
Movie-Made America
Journal Article Movie-Made America. By Robert Sklar. (New York: Random House, 1975. vii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.95.) Get access John Cawelti John Cawelti University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 2, September 1976, Pages 450–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899722 Published: 01 September 1976
Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
Journal Article Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918–1934. By David E. Ruth. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. x, 190 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-22673217-7. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-73218-5.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 2…
City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield
Journal Article City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield. By Robert Sklar. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xiv + 311 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-69104795-2.) Get access John S. Whitley John S. Whitley University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 323–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079821 Published: 01 June 199…
Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten
Journal Article Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. By Bernard F. Dick. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. viii + 264 pp. $27.00.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1324–1325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936707 Published: 01 March 1990
American Studies and the Realities of America
Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film-both before and behind the camera-from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South…
From Self to Society, 1919-1941
Journal Article From Self to Society, 1919–1941. By Robert M. Crunden. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972. xii + 212 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 761–762, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900745 Published: 01 December 1972
Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation
The development of political parties in Nigeria during the terminal phase of British colonial rule. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editio…
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Last Laocoon
American Studies and the Realities of America
Harlem Renaissance
Journal Article Harlem Renaissance. By Nathan Irvin Huggins. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. xi + 343 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $8.95.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888460 Published: 01 June 1972
From Self to Society, 1919-1941
Journal Article From Self to Society, 1919–1941. By Robert M. Crunden. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972. xii + 212 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 761–762, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900745 Published: 01 December 1972
A New Record of American Civilization
Documentary: Artifice in the Service of Truth
Roosevelt's Image Brokers: Poets, Playwrights, and the Use of the Lincoln Symbol
Journal Article Roosevelt's Image Brokers: Poets, Playwrights, and the Use of the Lincoln Symbol By Alfred Haworth Jones. (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1974. 134 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $8.95.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September 1975, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.…
"The Problem of an American Studies "Philosophy: A Bibliography of New Directions
MY MANDATE IS TO WRITE A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY of in the 1970s. The assignment brings to mind an old story about an 18th century guidebook to Aspiring to a complete taxonomy, it listed all species a thorough guidebook ought to have, regardless of their status in Under the entry for turtles, the guidebook stated, There are no turtles in Iceland. Perhaps under the entry for philosophy the Studies guidebook should be just as parsim…
Movie-made America: A cultural history of American movies
A Cast of Thousands
Movie-Made America
Journal Article Movie-Made America. By Robert Sklar. (New York: Random House, 1975. vii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.95.) Get access John Cawelti John Cawelti University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 2, September 1976, Pages 450–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899722 Published: 01 September 1976
Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film-both before and behind the camera-from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South…
The Manipulators: America in the Media Age
Journal Article The Manipulators: America in the Media Age. By Robert Sobel. (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976. xxii + 458 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $9.95.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 2, September 1977, Pages 499–500, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901927 Published: 01 September …
Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film
Broadcast Programming
Susan Tyler Eastman, Sydney Head and Levis Klein, Broadcast Programming: Strategies for Winning Television and Radio Audiences (Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth Publishing, 1981---$16.95) Charles Clift and Archie Greer, eds. Broadcast Programming: The Current Perspective (Washington: University Press of America, 1980---$8.50, paper) Robert Sklar, Prime-Time America: Life on and Behind the Television Screen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980---$15.95…
This Sporting Life
Oh! Althusser: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies
Research Article| May 01 1988 Oh! Althusser!: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies Robert Sklar Robert Sklar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1988) 1988 (41): 11–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1988-41-11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Sklar; Oh! Althusser!: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies. Radica…
Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten
Journal Article Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. By Bernard F. Dick. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. viii + 264 pp. $27.00.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1324–1325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936707 Published: 01 March 1990
The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941
Journal Article The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941. By James L. Baughman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. XX + 257 pp. Cloth, $38.95, ISBN 0-80184276-X. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8018-4277-8.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield
Journal Article City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield. By Robert Sklar. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xiv + 311 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-69104795-2.) Get access John S. Whitley John S. Whitley University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 323–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079821 Published: 01 June 199…
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics
Journal Article Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics. By Stephen Vaughn. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv, 359 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-521-44080-7.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 329–330, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082114 Published: 01 June 199…
Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
Journal Article Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918–1934. By David E. Ruth. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. x, 190 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-22673217-7. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-73218-5.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 2…
Hollywood Utopia
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