Books By Robert (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland) Kolker - Author

Robert Kolker has been teaching film for almost 40 years. He received his PhD in 18th Century English Literature from Columbia University, but moved quickly from literary to film criticism, beginning with a career interview with the documentary filmmakers David and Albert Maysles published in the British Film journal Sight and Sound) and has continued publishing in film and media to the present day. He has just published an introductory textbook in Media Studies and is currently writing a book on postwar American film, The Extraordinary Image. It will be a prequel to A Cinema of Loneliness.