Jerome Christensen is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine where he teaches film studies and romantic literature.   He is the author of four books on eighteenth and nineteenth century figures.  His most recent book, America’s Corporate Art:  Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures, was published by Stanford University Press in 2012.  Versions of Christensen’s essay, “Delirious Warner Bros: “Studio Authorship and The Fountainhead,” which originally appeared in Velvet Light Trap, have been published in Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader, ed. Barry Grant and Critical Visions in Film Theory, ed. Timothy Corrigan, et. al.   He is currently at work on a study of Hollywood exceptionalism.