Rebecca Prime is the Libman Professor of the Humanities at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, USA. She is a film historian who specializes in transnational film history and aesthetics. Her previous publications include Hollywood Exiles in Europe: the Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture.
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