Karen McNally

Dr Karen McNally is Professor of American Film, Television and Cultural History at London Metropolitan University. She is the author of The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2020) and When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity (University of Illinois Press, 2008), the editor of Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance (University of Illinois Press, 2026), American Television during a Television Presidency (Wayne State University Press, 2022) and Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films (McFarland, 2011), and co-editor of The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).