Heather Hendershot is Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at Northwestern University, USA. She has authored numerous books, including Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line (2016) and When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America (2022), as well essays on films ranging from The Creature from the Black Lagoon to Dog Day Afternoon.