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Mandy Merck (she/her) is Professor Emerita of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. A film scholar with an interest in gender, sexuality and national identity, she is the author of Cinema’s Melodramatic Celebrity (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2020); Hollywood’s American Tragedies: Dreiser, Eisenstein, Sternberg, Stevens (Bloomsbury 2007); In Your Face: Nine Sexual Studies (NYU Press, 2000); Perversions: Deviant Readings (Routledge, 1993). She is editor or co-editor of The British Monarchy on Screen; Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex; America First: Naming the Nation in US Film; The Art of Tracey Emin; A*fter Diana: Irreverent Elegies; and Coming Out of Feminism? *