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Rob Edelman   Rob Edelman
Lecturer
Department of Art
 
Areas of expertise:
Baseball and film
 
Campus e-mail:   robre25@yahoo.com
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4020
 

Biography:
Rob Edelman is a journalist, critic, historian, instructor, and lecturer. Since 1981, he has been a contributing editor of Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide, and has written entries in Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia. He has co-authored biographies of Walter Matthau, Angela Lansbury and other entertainment artists. His books include People at the Center of Watergate (2005), People at the Center of the Korean War (2005), People at the Center of the Vietnam War (2003).

Rob's other books include Great Baseball Films (Citadel Press, 1994) and Baseball on the Web (MIS: Press, 1998), which Amazon.com cited as one of year's the top-ten Internet-related books. He wrote an essay on silent baseball films for the recently released DVD "Reel Baseball" (Kino). He is one of the interviewees included on the newly re-released DVD of "The Natural." Rob teaches film history at the University at Albany and offers film commentary on WAMC (Northeast) Public Radio.
 
 
   


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