Robert Gordon

Emmy and Grammy Award winning filmmaker Robert Gordon is the producer/director of 8 feature documentaries and author of 6 books. He has focused on American popular culture-telling contemporary stories through historical music, art and politics. Gordon's documentary, Best of Enemies, won an Emmy in 2017 for Outstanding Historical Documentary. It's a film about the 1968 nationally televised debates between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal, and how they augured the age of spectacle television. Other films as director/producer include William Eggleston's Stranded In Canton, and Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story. His Johnny Cash's America featured interviews with former Vice President Al Gore and US Senator Lamar Alexander, and with Snoop Dogg and Ozzy Osbourne. It's about the unifying forces in the life of Johnny Cash. In 2018, Gordon published Memphis Rent Party, an interconnected collection of profiles and magazine pieces about artists forging their own shadowy paths. It's