Cinema Studies
Education
B.A., Princeton; Ph.D., Harvard.
Biography
Author,
City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield (1992) and
Prime-Time America: Life on and Behind the Television Screen (1980). Kraszna-Krausz Award for
Film: An International History of the Medium (1993). Theatre Library Association Prize for
Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (1975). Coeditor (with Charles Musser),
Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History (1990). Coeditor (with Vito Zaggario)
Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System (Temple University Press, 1998). Editor,
Culture and the Moving Image books series (Temple University Press). Past president, Society for Cinema Studies. Recipient, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships. Other publications include
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoön (1967); editor,
The Plastic Age: 1917-1930 (1970).
