رابین وود در دهه ای شروع به نوشتن کرد که مطالعات فیلم دوران طفولیت خود را سپری میکرد او بر خلاف منتقدان دیگری که نگاه خود را صرفا به مسائل زیبایی شناسی معطوف کرده بودند به ابعاد سیاسی و ایدئولوژیکی سینما پرداخت در نوشته های نقادانه اش درباره ی فیلم ها در پی یافتن ارزش های سیاسی و بر ملا کردن شکاف ها و تعارضات است و. این که سینما میتواند سلاحی برای واژگون سازی وضعیت سرمایه داری حاکم باشد...
Robert Paul Wood, known as Robin Wood, was an English film critic and educator who lived in Canada for much of his life. He wrote books on the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Arthur Penn. Wood was a longtime member - and co-founder, along with other colleagues at Toronto's York University - of the editorial collective which publishes CineACTION!, a film theory magazine. Wood was also York professor emeritus of film.[2]
Robin Wood was a founding editor of CineAction! and author of numerous influential works, including new editions published by Wayne State University Press of Personal Views: Explorations in Film (2006), Howard Hawks (2006), Ingmar Bergman (2013), Arthur Penn (2014) and The Apu Trilogy (2016). He was professor emeritus at York University, Toronto, and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.