Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, where she earned her Ph.D. Her books include Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (1981), Exporting Entertainment: America's Place in World Film Markets 1901-1934 (1985), Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (1988), Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (1999), Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (2005), and The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (2007).
