Holding a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, Dr. Bruce Williams is Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. He has published extensively in the areas of cinema history; film theory; Latin American and European cinemas, and language and cinema. Among his recent work is an article on cinema and activism in 1970s Argentina. His current research interests include Albanian cinema; cinema as a tool for nation-building in North Korea and Albania; cinematic ties between Brazil and the Soviet Union; and camp celebrity (France/Germany).