Gaylyn Studlar is David May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of "This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age" and "In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic". She has co-edited four anthologies: "John Ford Made Westerns", "Visions of the East, Reflections in a Male Eye", "John Huston and the American Experience", and "Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster".