Janet Staiger is William P‎.‎ Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication in the Department of Radio‎-Television‎-Film at the University of Texas at Austin‎.‎ The author of many books‎,‎ her latest include Media Reception Studies‎,‎ Blockbuster TV‎:‎ Must‎-See Sitcoms in the Network Era‎,‎ and Perverse Spectators‎:‎ The Practices of Film Reception‎.‎ Sabine Hake is Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin‎.‎ She is the author of Topographies of Class‎:‎ Urban Architecture and Mass Utopia in Weimar Berlin‎,‎ German National Cinema‎,‎ and Popular Cinema of the Third Reich‎,‎ among many other books‎.‎