Phyllis R. Klotman

Phyllis R. Klotman
Born	Phyllis Helen Rauch September 9, 1924 Galveston, Texas
Died	March 30, 2015 (aged 90) New York, New York
Nationality	American
Occupation	Professor, Archivist, Film theorist
Spouse(s)	Robert Klotman (m. 1943–2012)

Phyllis R. Klotman (September 9, 1924 – March 30, 2015) was a film theorist, archivist, professor and later dean for women’s affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington. Klotman is the author of Another Man Gone: The Black Runner in Contemporary Afro-American Literature (1977); Frame by Frame: A Black Filmography (1979); and Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video (1999).^[1]

Early life and education

Klotman was born in Galveston, Texas in 1924. Her father was a door-to-door salesman. Klotman is Jewish. Klotman earned her Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees in English from Case Western Reserve University and began teaching at Indiana University, Bloomington in 1970. Klotman taught in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies until she retired from Indiana University in 1999 and moved to Manhattan with her husband Robert Klotman.^[1]

Preservation

Klotman founded the journal Black Camera^[2] and helped to amass a large archive on black cinema at Indiana University which now includes thousands of films, photographs, oral histories and memorabilia.^[1]

References

1. Fox, Margalit (5 April 2015). "Phyllis R. Klotman, Archivist of African-American Cinema, Dies at 90". New York Times. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
2. "Black Camera".