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Todd Berliner is Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches American film history. He is the author of Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2010), Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, MIKEY AND NICKY, and the Making of a Masterpiece (University of Texas Press, 2026). Professor Berliner is the founding chair of UNCW’s Film Studies Department and the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar awards, including the prestigious Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award. He holds masters and doctorate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.