Patrice Petro

Patrice Petro is professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History and Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany and the editor of several books, including Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s ; Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror ; and Global Currents: Media and Technology Now .

Patrice Petro is professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History and Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany and the editor of several books, including Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s ; Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror ; and Global Currents: Media and Technology Now . See less