Gary D. RhodesGary D. Rhodes is Full Professor of Film and Media at Oklahoma Baptist University, USA. He is the author of numerous books, including Vampires in Silent Cinema (2023), Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial/i> (2020), co-authored with Robert Singer, The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018), and The Perils of Moviegoing in America (Bloomsbury, 2012). Rhodes is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. He is also the writer- director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Read More Read Less