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Robert Rosen


Rosen is an educator, critic and preservationist who specializes on issues of media and historical memory. After receiving degrees from Rutgers University in political science and Stanford University in history, he taught in the history departments at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining UCLA's Department of Film and Television in 1974. From 1975 to the present, he has also served as Founding Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and from 1993-1998 served as Chair of the Department of Film and Television.

Rosen has spoken at scholarly, public, and professional meetings in more than twenty nations on subjects related to film criticism, media history, and curatorship. He has published widely in the field of media preservation and has guided the growth of the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a small study collection to the world's largest university-based holding of original film and television materials. As a preservationist and historian, he has occupied many positions of leadership in the field.

 

These include: Founding Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute, the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archive s, member of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, and Board Member of the Stanford Theatre Foundation, the Geffen Playhouse and the Latino Theater Company. With Martin Scorsese he was the organizer of the Film Foundation on which he currently serves as the founding Chair of the Archivists Council. Rosen was decorated by the French Government as an Officer of Arts and Letters and was awarded the International Documentary Association's Career Achievement Award for Scholarship and Preservation. For ten years he was the film critic for KCRW National Public Radio and he is an active member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Rosen has had extensive interaction with the film and television industry throughout Asia including teaching and lecturing activities in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hanoi, Tokyo and Taipei.