Douglas Brode
- Writer
Douglas Brode (b. 1943) is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, film
historian, and multi-award winning journalist. Born and raised on Long
Island, he traveled upstate to attend SUNY Geneseo as an undergrad and
never really left. After graduate work in Shakespearean studies at
Syracuse University, he and his wife Sue (Johnson) Brode stayed on and
raised a family. Brode became the coordinator of the Cinema Studies
program at Onondaga College and then an adjunct professor at Syracuse
University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. He is the author
of over 30 books on film and the mass media including Films Of The
Fifties, Films Of Steven Spielberg, Denzel Washington (a biography),
Sinema (Erotic Films), Shakespeare In The Movies (for Oxford University
Press), and most recently two books on Walt Disney for University of
Texas Press, From Walt To Woodstock and Multiculturalism and the mouse.
Also, Elvis Cinema And Popular Culture for McFarland Press. He and
Carol (widow of Rod) Serling are currently completing Rod Serling And
The Twilight Zone: The Official 50th Anniversary Tribute. Brode wrote
the screenplay for Midnight Blue, which one critic called "the best of
the low-budget erotic thrillers. His produced plays include
Heartbreaker and Somewhere In The Night.