Robert Sklar was born in 1936 and was educated in the public schools of Long Beach, California, and at Princeton University. After working as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, he received his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University in 1965. He is a historian and writer on twentieth-century American culture and society, and is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoön and editor of The Plastic Age, an anthology on 1920s culture. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and has taught overseas in New Zealand and Japan. A faculty member at the University of Michigan, he lives in Ann Arbor, and is the father of two children.
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Criticism and interpretation, Film, Aspect social, Au cinema, Biography, Bogart, humphrey, 1899-1957, Cagney, james, 1899-1986, City and town life in motion pictures, Civilisation, Civilization, Critique et interpretation, Filmindustrie, Filmkunst, Films, Garfield, john, 1913-1952, Geschichte, History, Hommes, Hommes au cinema, Men in motion pictures, Motion pictures, Motion pictures, history, New York Times reviewed, Reviews, RécensionsPlaces
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), James Cagney (1899-1986), John GarfieldTime
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