Robin Wood (critic)
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Robin Wood (born February 23, 1931, in London, England) is a film critic and author, acclaimed for his reviews of films from Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks and Satyajit Ray, among others.
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[edit] Early life
Robin Wood was born Robert Paul Wood on February 23, 1931, to Robert and Florence Wood. He graduated in 1953 from Jesus College, Cambridge with a degree in education. On 17 May 1960, he married Aline Macdonald. They divorced in 1974, after bearing three children.
[edit] Career
He published his first book, Hitchcock's Films, in 1965. From 1969 to 1974, he lectured in film at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. From 1973 to 1977, he lectured in film at the University of Warwick, in Coventry, England.
in 1977, Wood came out as homosexual in an essay in Film Comment magazine. Also in that same year, he became of professor of film studies at York University, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he taught until his retirement.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Hitchcock's Films, 1965
- Howard Hawks, 1968
- Ingmar Bergman, 1969
- Claude Chabrol, Wood and Michael Walker, 1970
- Antonioni, Revised Edition, Wood and Ian Cameron, 1971
- Personal Views: Explorations in Film, 1976
- Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, 1986
- Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond, 1998
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