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Richard Koszarski

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Richard Koszarski (born December 18, 1947) is a film historian.

He was the founder of Film History: An International Journal [d],[1] and served as editor-in-chief from 1987 to 2012.[2] He is a professor emeritus of English and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey.[3]

His collection of material on the early history of the Universal Pictures is held in the Library of Congress.[4]

He was the chief curator at the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York.[5][6] Koszarski is the museum curator at the Barrymore Film Center.

Books

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  • Hollywood Directors, 1941-1976 (editor) (Oxford University Press, 1977)
  • An Evening’s Entertainment: The Rise of The Silent Feature Picture (University of California Press, 1990)
  • Von: The Life and Films of Erich von Stroheim (Limelight, 2001), original title The Man You Loved to Hate: Erich Von Stroheim and Hollywood
  • Fort Lee, the Film Town (Indiana University Press, 2004)
  • Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
  • “Keep ‘Em in the East”: Kazan, Kubrick and the Postwar New York Renaissance (Columbia University Press, 2021)

References

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  1. ^ "Richard Koszarski Polish poster collection". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  2. ^ "Television in the Cinema Before 1939: An International Annotated Database, with an Introduction by Richard Koszarski". journals.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  3. ^ susanmm. "RICHARD KOSZARSKI". www.cinemastudies.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  4. ^ "Richard Koszarski collection of research material on the early history of Universal Pictures Corporation" (PDF). Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress.
  5. ^ Betancourt, André. Under construction: recollecting the museum of the moving image (PhD). OCLC 456720413 – via Academia.edu.
  6. ^ Bottomore, Stephen (2006-07-01). "Film museums: a bibliography". Film History. 18 (3): 327–350. doi:10.2979/FIL.2006.18.3.327.
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