Joseph VogelJoseph Vogel is an Assistant Professor of English and co-director of Film Studies at Merrimack College, USA. He is the author of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson (Sterling, 2011), which was widely praised n publications such as Rolling Stone, Forbes, and Publishers Weekly, and author of James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era (University of Illinois Press, 2017). His work has appeared on numerous popular news sites, including The Atlantic, Slate, The Huffington Post, and PopMatters, as well as in many peer-reviewed journals, including the James Baldwin Review, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. Read More Read Less