Robert P. Kolker, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is author of A Cinema of Loneliness; The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and the Reimagining of Cinema; Triumph over Containment: American Film in the 1950s; and Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making his Final Film (with Nathan Abrams) and editor of 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays.