Robert von Dassanowsky

Robert von Dassanowsky FRHistS, FRSA (born January 28, 1965, New York City) is an Austrian-American academic, writer, film and cultural historian, and producer. He is usually known as Robert Dassanowsky.

A student of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a graduate of UCLA (MA, PhD), where he has also served as Visiting Professor of German, Dassanowsky is a widely published academician, award-winning playwright and has written for television. He holds dual American and Austrian citizenship.

Since 1993, he has been professor of German and film studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and has become particularly known for his influential scholarly work on Austrian author Alexander Lernet-Holenia, German filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl, and on Austrian and Central European film. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Media Communication at Webster University Vienna.

Dassanowsky was founding president of the Colorado chapter of PEN and was a founding Vice President of the Austrian American Film Association (AAFA). Additionally, he is the Contributing Editor of the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, a Contributing Advisor to the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures, and is author of Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), the first English language survey of this national cinema. Among his other publications is a collection of essays on New Austrian Film edited with Oliver C. Speck (2011), edited collections on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Der Schwierige (Iudicium 2011), Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Manipulations of Metafilm (Continuum 2012), and on World Film Locations: Vienna (Intellect 2012). His study, Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933–1938, will be published by Indiana University Press in 2017. He is (2017-18) also editing an international anthology entitled Trip to the Movies: Psychedelic Cinema.

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