Author: Vincent Brook

Michael Renov is professor of cinema and media studies and serves as vice dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Hollywood’s Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology and The Subject of Documentary, editor of Theorizing Documentary, and coeditor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, Collecting Visible Evidence, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies, and Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács .Vincent Brook teaches media studies at UCLA, California State University, Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University. He has published numerous scholarly articles and six books, including four dealing with Jews and Hollywood: Something Ain’t Kosher Here: The Rise of the “Jewish” Sitcom, You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture, Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir, and Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen.