CONTRIBUTOR:

Joanna E. Rapf

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor Emerita, English and Film & Video Studies

DEPARTMENT:

Department of English

INSTITUTION:

University of Oklahoma

BIOGRAPHY:

Joanna E. Rapf, a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College in the Film & Media Studies Department, is an Emerita Professor of English and Film & Video Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Her books include Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography (1995), On the Waterfront: A Cambridge University Press Film Handbook, (2003), Interviews with Sidney Lumet (2005), and The Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy (2013). Among the subject of her book chapters and articles are Roscoe Arbuckle, Harry Langdon, Jerry Lewis, Woody Allen, the early history of MGM, and children of the Hollywood blacklist.