Thomas Doherty is a professor in the American studies department and chair of the film studies program at Brandeis University. He is the author of Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II; PreCode Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934;and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s,and is associate editor of the film journal Cin�aste.