Lauren Rabinovitz is Professor of American Studies and Cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago and Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943???1971 and coeditor of Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays, also published by Duke University Press. Abraham Geil is an instructor in media history at the New School University in New York City.