Paula Rabinowitz, Professor Emerita of English, University of Minnesota, serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. She is the author or editor of numerous essays and books on mid-20th-century American politics and culture, including Black&White and Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism and the prize-winning American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street. She is currently working on two books: "Into the Image," a collection of essays; and a double biography of two fathers, entitled "Cold War Dads: Family Secrets and the National Security State." She lives in Queens, New York.
Documentary Can Reveal an America Hiding in Plain Sight
“Documentary hails its viewers. In the words of Louis Althusser, it interpellates us, bringing us into the world we can see on screen, one often invisible, forgotten, left out of the picture.” Author and English professor Paula Rabinowitz on the ways documentary films can burst the political bubble.
