Robert von Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film and director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has served as the editor of The Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2nd Ed. and editorial advisor to the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. His examinations of film and literature have appeared in widely in journals and anthologies. His most recent books are Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), New Austrian Film (co-ed with Oliver C. Speck, 2011) and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige Revisited (co-ed with Martin Liebscher and Christophe Fricker, 2011). Forthcoming are edited collections on Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, World Film Locations: Vienna, and his book Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism 1933-38. Dassanowsky is also active as an independent film producer.