Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include "Film Theory: An Introduction" (Blackwell, 2000)," Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media" (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and "Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film" (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of "Film and Theory" (Blackwell, 2000) and "The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory" (2000).