The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032156507)

Michael Kackman is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (2005) and co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2010). His research centers on the history and historiography of American television, with particular attention to the shifting relationships between television and U.S. nationhood.

Mary Celeste Kearney is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock and the editor of The Gender and Media Reader as well as two volumes of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture. She edits the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media. Her current book project focuses on the first wave of U.S. teen-girl entertainment.