Frankenstein: Afterlives – Young Frankenstein

Lester D. Friedman is Emeritus Professor and former chair of the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Prior to his time at HWS, Professor Friedman taught cinema studies at Syracuse, Northwestern, and American Universities, as well as the Art Institute of Chicago. The author, co-author, and editor of over twenty books and numerous articles, his areas of academic specialty include film genres, American cinema of the 1970s, American Jewish cinema, British film of the 1980s, health and humanities, and multiculturalism in film. Additionally, he has written books about Steven Spielberg, Arthur Penn, Peter Pan, Frankenstein, and Clint Eastwood. He has authored two screenplays that have been the basis of independent films directed by the award-winning visual artist Owen Shapiro. He is currently completing a book on sports and American culture.

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.