Robert Castle studied English and got a degree in the Writing Program at Penn State in the early seventies. After attending Columbia University School of the Arts for a brief time, he traveled around Europe and lived on and off in Florence, Italy. For fifteen years he lived off his earnings as a cook at a New Jersey seaside town before finally giving up and getting a full-time job as a teacher of History, Sociology, and Film. Bob has regularly published articles for Bright Lights Film Journal since 2002. Other of his film essays have appeared in Film Comment, The Film Journal, The Journal of R...