Dr. Richard Barsam (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of In the Dark: A Primer for the Movies (1977), The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker (1988), Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (rev., exp. ed. 1992), and Filmguide to “Triumph of the Will” (1975); editor of Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism (1976); and contributing author to Paul Monaco’s The Sixties: 1960–1969 (Vol. 8, History of the American Cinema, 2001) and Filming Robert Flaherty’s “Louisiana Story”: The Helen Van Dongen Diary (ed. Eva Orbanz, 1998). His book reviews and articles have appeared in Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Cinema Journal, Studies in Visual Communication, Film Comment, and Harper’s. He has been a member of the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Editorial Board of Cinema Journal, and the Board of Advisers of the History of American Cinema series, and he cofounded the journal Persistence of Vision.