Veronica Pravadelli is Professor of Film Studies at Roma Tre University and a former Visiting Professor at Brown University. She has written many books and articles on Feminist Film Theory and Women’s Cinema, film theory, Hollywood cinema and Italian Post-Neorealist cinema. Her most recent books are "Classic Hollywood" (Univ. of Illinois P, 2015) and" Le donne del cinema" (Women’s of Cinema, Laterza, 2014).