JUDITH E. SMITH is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her explorations into postwar film, drama, radio, and television have appeared in various published essays and in Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960. She is also the author of Family Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900-1940 and coauthor of American Identities: An Introductory Textbook and The Evolution of American Urban Society.
