Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University USA. He has authored co-authored and edited nineteen books on film and cultural theory national cinemas politics and aesthetics and comparative race and postcolonial studies. His books include: Reflexivity in Film and Literature (19851995); Brazilian Cinema (1982);Subversive Pleasures:(1989); Tropical Multiculturalism (1997); Film Theory: An Introduction (2000); Literature through Film (2005); Francois Truffaut and Friends (2006); Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics (2015); and World Literature Transnational Cinemaand Global Media: Towards a Transartistic Commons (2019) He is co-author with Ella Shohat of Unthinking Eurocentrism (1994) Flagging Patriotism; (2006); and Race in Translation: (2012); He has taught in France Tunisia Brazil Germany and Abu Dhabi. His work has been translated into more than 15 languages. Language: English