BARBARA KOSTA is Professor and Head of the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the recipient of Fulbright and DAAD awards. She has published on contemporary German film and literature as well as on literature, film, and visual culture of the Weimar Republic. Her most recent book is Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, Mass Culture.