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Chris Robé
PhD, Film and Media Studies/Literature, Lehigh University

Email: crobe@fau.edu
Phone: 561-297-1306

Areas of Expertise: Film and Media Studies, Historical Materialism, Cultural Studies



Chris Robé teaches history and theory courses in film and media studies with a materialist orientation. His monograph Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Left Film Culture was published by the University of Texas Press in Fall 2010. His work has appeared in various anthologies and journals such as Jump Cut, Cinema Journal, and Framework. He is currently researching digital media activism in the United States from the 1970s to the present. He is also a frequent contributor to the on-line journal PopMatters.
 
Monograph
Robé, Chris. Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Left Film Culture (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2010)
 
Recent Articles
Robé, Chris, Todd Wolfson, and Peter Funke. "Suturing Working Class Subjectivities: Media Mobilizing Project and the Role of Media Building a Class-Based Movement," Triple-C: Cognition, Communication, Cooperation 10, no. 1 (2012)
 
Robé, Chris, "'Because I Hate Fathers and I Never Wanted to Be One': Wes Anderson, Entitled Masculinity, and the 'Crisis' of the Patriarch," in Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema (Forthcoming Fall 2012)
 
Robé, Chris, "Materializing Cultural Struggle in Film and Media Studies," Culture, Theory, and Critique (Forthcoming 2012)
 
Current Courses
FIL 4672: Hollywood, Censorship, and Regulation
FIL 4058: Radical Film, Media, and Social Movements
FIL 6935: Historiography
FIL 3803: Film Theory
FIL 4036: Film to the 1940s
FIL 4037: Film since the 1940s
FIL 2000: Film Appreciation