Robert Phillip Kolker,
Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland R P Kolker,
Adjunct Professor, Media Studies, Univ of Virginia
ISBN: 0073123617 Copyright year: 2006
About the Author
"Teaching film is about getting control of the image and handing that control over to students." That has been Robert Kolker's goal in teaching and writing about film for the past 30 years. Combining his love of computers with his love of film, Kolker began experimenting with ways to deliver film in manageable, manipulable ways to an audience who could then watch carefully, see it analyzed, and interact with the moving image in a close and comfortable setting. The result is the DVD-ROM and textbook, Film, Form, and Culture. The textbook results from another overriding interest: to present a thorough grounding in film form and theory in readable prose that emphasizes not only the formal matters of film structure, but the larger cultural contexts in which film thrives.
ROBERT KOLKER is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Adjunct Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books on film. A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman is in its third edition. He has recently edited Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho: A Casebook. His book on European film, The Altering Eye, is now on the Web.
Contact the author at rkolker@mail.umd.edu
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