Gabriel Over the White House

Jeff Greenfield is an award-winning television journalist and author whose work focuses on politics, media, and culture. Over the course of his career, he served as a senior political correspondent for CBS, a senior analyst for CNN, and a political and media analyst for ABC News. He has written for Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Lampoon, Harper’s Magazine, and Slate, among others. He has authored or co-authored thirteen books, including A Populist Manifesto: The Making of a New Majority (1972), Television: The First Fifty Years (1977), Playing to Win: An Insider’s Guide to Politics (1980), The People’s Choice: A Cautionary Tale (1995), Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics (2011), 43*: When Gore Beat Bush (2012), and If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy (2013).

Patrice Petro is Professor of Film and Media Studies, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, and Presidential Chair in Media Studies. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of twelve books, including The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (with Kristin Hole, Dijana Jelaca, and E. Ann Kaplan, 2017), Teaching Film (2012), Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s (2010), Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the “War on Terror” (2006), and Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History (2002). She served two terms as President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the largest U.S. professional organization for college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.