Richard Koszarski (born December 18, 1947) is a film historian.

He was the founder of Film History: An International Journal  [d],^[1] and served as editor-in-chief from 1987 to 2012.^[2] He is a professor emeritus of English and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey.^[3]

His collection of material on the early history of the Universal Pictures is held in the Library of Congress.^[4]

He was the chief curator at the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York.^[5][6] Koszarski is the museum curator at the Barrymore Film Center.

Books

• Hollywood Directors, 1941-1976 (editor) (Oxford University Press, 1977)
• An Evening’s Entertainment: The Rise of The Silent Feature Picture (University of California Press, 1990)
• Von: The Life and Films of Erich von Stroheim (Limelight, 2001), original title The Man You Loved to Hate: Erich Von Stroheim and Hollywood
• Fort Lee, the Film Town (Indiana University Press, 2004)
• Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
• “Keep ‘Em in the East”: Kazan, Kubrick and the Postwar New York Renaissance (Columbia University Press, 2021)