Please join us for a talk with Harlow Robinson, author of LEWIS
MILESTONE: Life and Films (University Press of Kentucky, December
2019). Creator of such recognized classic films as All Quiet on the
Western Front, Of Mice and Men and Pork Chop Hill, LEWIS MILESTONE
ROSE FROM HUMBLE RUSSIAN-speaking Jewish origins in KISHINEV TO BECOME
ONE OF THE LEADING DIRECTORS OF HOLLYWOOD’s Golden Age. During the
course of his long career he worked with many great stars, and
maintained close contact with Soviet filmmakers. His Russian origins
and left-wing sympathies made him a target of the anti-Communist
hysteria of the late 1940s, but he survived into the 1960s with
Ocean’s 11 and Mutiny on the Bounty. Harlow Robinson’s book LEWIS
MILESTONE: Life and Films is the first major study of this fascinating
cinema pioneer. HARLOW ROBINSON is professor of History and Screen and
Media Studies Emeritus at Northeastern University. He is the author of
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography; The Last Impresario: The Life, Times,
and Legacy of Sol Hurok; Russians in HOLLYWOOD, HOLLYWOOD’s
Russians: Biography of an Image; and editor and translator of Selected
Letters of Sergei Prokofiev. His articles, essays, and reviews have
appeared in the NEW YORK Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles
Times, Opera News, Musical America, Cineaste, the San Francisco
Chronicle, and other publications. In 2010 he was named an Academy
Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Event
Contact Information: Carly Jackson 212 854 6217 crj2116@columbia.edu
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