Matthew Kennedy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Matthew Kennedy
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Mar 14, 1957(1957-03-14)
Age	67
Birthplace	Redding
Country	United States
Birth City	Redding
Horoscope	Pisces

Matthew Kennedy Biography

Matthew Kennedy is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on March 14, 1957 in Redding, Redding, United States. Matthew Kennedy (born March 14, 1957) is an American writer, film historian, and anthropologist.

Kennedy’s books on film have received praise. In reviewing Joan Blondell, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin wrote, “Kennedy is a genuinely good writer who knows the language as well as he does vintage Hollywood movies. This book gets my highest recommendation.” The National Board of Review found Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory to be “a fascinating read,” and linguist and political commentator John McWhorter reviewed Marie Dressler with “Bullseye! … this book finally does this fabulous star justice with comprehensive research on her now-obscured early life; loving, intelligent coverage of all her extant films; savvy, well-written documentation of her stage career, and endlessly perceptive reconstruction of what Dressler was like as a human being…. Truly a bravura performance – Dressler lives again.”

Kennedy began teaching film history in 2004 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has written extensively about film in a number of publications, including The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, Performing Arts, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and TCM Classic Film Festival program books, and the popular Bright Lights Film Journal. Honors include a Cable Car Award for Outstanding Critic and for his teaching has been named in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and Honors Faculty of the Year by the Northern California Bay Consortium. Kennedy was a contributing researcher for George Lucas’ Blockbusting, a film reference book published in 2010. His books have inspired film retrospectives on Turner Classic Movies and at the Museum of Modern Art and the Pacific Film Archive. He is a regular guest speaker at the San Francisco Mechanics Institute CinemaLit series, and has been interviewed for a number of documentaries, blogs, and podcasts, including Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis (2009).

Matthew Kennedy Net Worth

Matthew Kennedy is one of the richest Anthropologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matthew Kennedy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Matthew Kennedy was born in Redding, California, attended Shasta High School, and the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in theater arts in 1979. Moving to San Francisco, he studied and performed with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, before moving to New York to study with choreographer Merce Cunningham and perform with Jonathon Apples

• Company. After serving on the executive staff of the California Arts Council, he pursued graduate studies in anthropology at the University of California, Davis, where he was awarded a Fulbright research grant. Graduating with a Masters of Arts in 1992, the following year he joined the faculty in anthropology at City College of San Francisco, where he continues to teach.

Kennedy’s books include Marie Dressler: A Biography (1999), Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy (2004) with a foreword by Kevin Brownlow, Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes (2007), and Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s (2014).

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