The Complete History of American Film Criticism

The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a historical overview of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years.

Jerry Roberts is an acquisitions editor for Arcadia Publishing. He was a film critic and columnist for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers and Copley News Service and has contributed to Daily Variety, DGA Magazine, and the Hollywood Reporter. He is a past coordinator of film programs for the UCLA Film & Television Archive, featuring speakers such as Elmore Leonard, Oliver Stone, Robert Altman, Robert Towne, Roy Scheider, and Horton Foote. He is the author of Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, The Great American Playwrights on the Screen, Images of America: Hawthorne, Images of America: Hermosa Beach, Mitchum: In His Own Words, and Movie Talk from the Front Lines. He lives in Carson, California.