Peter Decherney is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and teacher. He is Professor and Director of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has been an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a U.S. State Department Arts Envoy to Myanmar. He has directed documentary and virtual reality films in Asia, Africa, and the U.S. Most recently, he directed the award-winning virtual reality documentary series The Heart of Puerto Rico about artists after Hurricane Maria. He is the author or editor of six books, including Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet and Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, and Inside Higher Ed, among other places. His open online course on the history of Hollywood has enrolled more than 50,000 learners.