Stephen Tropiano (Los Angles, CA) is the author of Cabaret: Music on Film, Obscene, Indecent, Immoral and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned and Controversial Films, and The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on Television. He is editor of the Journal of Film and Video and the founding director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, where he teaches courses in film and television history, theory, and criticism.