Bob Blackwood

Bob Blackwood taught English, literature, film study, and photography at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago until 2000. For more than forty years, he has reviewed books on film criticism and film history for Choice magazine.

His book From the Silent Era to “The Sopranos”: Italian American Gangsters in Trend-Setting Films and Television Shows contains critical commentary on the major Italian American gangster films and TV shows from The Black Hand(1906) to The Sopranos (1999–2005).

Blackwood began reading the James Bond novels in the 1950s and is a life-long devotee to Ian Fleming. He has co-authored two books with John L. Flynn: Everything I Know About Life I Learned From James Bond and Future Prime: Top Ten Science Fiction Films.