She is the author of Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics, and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television and co-editor of Asian American Popular Culture. Patrice Petro is a professor of film studies and director of the Center for International Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History and co-editor of Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age.