Nora M. Alter is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana University Press, 1996), Projecting History: Non-Fiction German Film (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and Chris Marker. Contemporary Directors (Illinois University Press, 2005), and the co-editor of Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture (Berghahn Press, 2004).