Robert Sklar

Robert Anthony Sklar

(1936-12-03)December 3, 1936

July 2, 2011(2011-07-02) (aged 74)

  • Film scholar
  • journalist

Marty Sklar (brother)

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoon (1965)

Film history

Early life and biography[edit]

Sklar was born on December 3, 1936, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His father was a high school teacher in Highland Park, New Jersey. Sklar was 9 years old when his family moved to Long Beach, California,[3] where he went to Long Beach Polytechnic High School and was the editor of the school newspaper.[3] Later, at Princeton University, Sklar served as chairman of the editorial board of The Daily Princetonian. After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1958, he worked on the rewrite desk in the Associated Press bureau in Newark and as a writer and reporter for the Los Angeles Times before doing graduate study at the University of Bonn on a Fulbright Scholarship from 1959 to 1960.[5]


Sklar received a doctorate from Harvard in 1965. His dissertation became the title of his first book, F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoon (1967).


Sklar was married twice and had two children.[2] He had an older brother, Marty Sklar, who was the former creative head of Walt Disney Imagineering. On July 2, 2011, Sklar died while on vacation in Barcelona, aged 74, from a brain injury sustained in a bicycle accident.[2][6]

Sklar, Robert (1967). F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoön. London, New York: Oxford University Press.

Sklar, Robert (1980). Prime-Time America: Life on and Behind the Television Screen. Oxford University Press.

Sklar, Robert (2002) [1990]. Film: An International History of the Medium (2 ed.). . ISBN 0130340499.

Prentice Hall

Sklar, Robert (1992). City boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield. . ISBN 978-0-691-04795-9. OCLC 24318057.

Princeton University Press

Sklar, Robert (1994) [1975]. Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies. New York: . ISBN 978-0-679-75549-4. OCLC 499793364.

Vintage Books

Sklar, Robert; Zagarrio, Vito (1998). Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System. . ISBN 1439904898.

Temple University Press

Putnam, Michael (2000). Silent Screens: The Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater.  0801863295. (with an introductory essay by Robert Sklar)

ISBN

Sklar, Robert (2002). A World History of Film. . ISBN 0810906066.

Harry N. Abrams

Sklar, Robert; Giovacchini, Saverio (2011). Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style.

at IMDb

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