Petro, Patrice

Patrice Petro is professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of "Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History" and "Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany" and the editor of several books, including "Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s"; "Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror"; and "Global Currents: Media and Technology Now".