Vanessa R. Schwartz

Vanessa R. Schwartz has written about the Belle Époque and is now completing a book about the Jet Age. She is the author of It’s So French ! Hollywood, Paris and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (Chicago, 2007) and Spectacular Realities : Early Mass Culture in fin-de-siècle Paris (California, 1998) and Modern France : A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP : 2011). She teaches Art History and History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she directs the Visual Studies Research Institute.