Robert Alpert

Robert Alpert is an Adjunct Instructor at Fordham University where he has taught courses on computers and robots in film, movies and the American experience, and media law. He has written extensively on movies, including on directors, such as Katherine Bigelow, Charlie Chaplin, Clint Eastwood, Ernst Lubitsch, and Nancy Meyers, as well as on other topics, such as gender, the Hollywood idiom, free speech, and the politics of science fiction movies. His publications can be found in Jump Cut, Senses of Cinema, and CineAction, and he is currently writing a book on the movie history of robots, computers, and androids. He received his B.A. in French (literature) from Yale University and his M.F.A. in Film (scholarship) from Columbia University. He also received a J.D. from New York University and practiced for over 30 years intellectual property law for both boutique and international law firms.