Michael Z. Newman is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and in the programs in film studies and media, cinema, and digital studies. He is the author of Indie: An American Film Culture (2011), Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium (2014), Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America (2017), and co-author of Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status (2012).