Christof DeckerChristof Decker is a professor of American studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin where he also completed his second book (habilitation) with a study on the cultural functions of the socal melodrama. He has published widely on documentary and Hollywood cinema, avant-garde film, literary and cultural history, visual culture, and the history of mass media. Read More Read Less