The Authors : Mary M. Dalton is Associate Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University, the author of The Hollywood Curriculum : Teachers in the Movies (Lang, 2004), and a documentary filmmaker. Laura R. Linder is Associate Professor of Media Arts at Marist College and author of Public Access Television : America's Electronic Soapbox and co-editor (with Dalton) of The Sitcom Reader : America Viewed and Skewed.