Tom Pollard is Professor of Social Sciences at National University in San Jose and a documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Life Network, Canadian Broadcasting System, and various PBS channels. His most recent book is "Sex and Violence: The Hollywood Censorship Wars" (Paradigm, 2010) and he has coauthored with Carl Boggs "The Hollywood War Machine" (Paradigm, 2007) and "A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema" (Rowman & Littlefield 2003).