Meenakshi Gigi Durham is Associate Professor of Journalismand Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. She has publishedwidely on feminist media studies and related critical approaches,especially those of race, class, and sexuality. She is the authorof The Lolita Effect (2008). Douglas M. Kellner is George Kneller Chair in thePhilosophy of Education at UCLA and is the author of many books onsocial theory, politics, history, and culture, includingTelevision and the Crisis of Democracy (1990); ThePersian Gulf TV War (1992); Media Culture (1995);Media Spectacle (2003); From 9/11 to Terror War: theDangers of the Bush Legacy (2003); and Cinema Wars:Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).