Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Warwick University, having previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London and both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He has written widely on the mass media, the cultural aspects of politics, fashion, and the impact of American modernity on European popular culture. He is the author of Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy and co-author of The Glamor System (with Clino T. Castelli).