Margarethe von Trotta is one of the leading German filmmakers working today and was one of the major figures in the New German Cinema movement.

Bakshi, who grow up in Brownsville, is one of the pioneers of American animation.

Stanley Aronowitz is one of America’s most prominent social theorists. For almost 30 years, he has been a Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Before that, he was a labor organizer. In books like False Promises, Crisis in Historical Materialism, The Jobless Future, Science as Power, How Class Works, and Against Schooling, he has intervened in major debates on class, the labor movement, education, and cultural studies.