Authors and Illustrators Database

Robert Gessner

Born: 10/23/1907  Escanaba
Died: 1968
Parents: German Gessner, Anna Gessner
Children: Peter, Stephen

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
A Guide to Cinematic Literacy Non Fiction Dutton 1968
Behind the Ivy Non Fiction 1959
- Script writer, United States Air Force, 1952-1953. Non Fiction 1952-1953
Youth is the Time Non Fiction Charles Scribner's Sons 1945
Treason Non Fiction Charles Scribner's Sons 1944
Here is My Home Town Non Fiction Alliance Book 1941
Some of My Best Friends are Jews Non Fiction Farrar & Rinehart 1936
The Art of the Moving Image Non Fiction
Massacre: A Survey of Today's American Indian
- (Publication Years: 1931, 1972) 		Non Fiction Da Capo Press
- Others. Non Fiction
- Periodical contributions Non Fiction

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Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Science in Library Science (M.S.L.S.) Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 1976-1977

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Chairman Rosenthal Foundation Awards in Cinema 1962-1964
Founding President Society of Cinematologists 1959-1961
Professor New York University New York 1945
Associate Professor New York University New York 1943-1945
Assistant Professor New York University New York 1941-1943
Screen playwright Warner Brothers 1933
Instructor New York University New York 1930
Visiting professor, film adviser, cinema critic, Board of Directors Motion Picture Foundation for Colleges and Universities
The Democratic Man Editor

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