Amanda Ann Klein is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the English Department at East Carolina University. She is the author of American Film Cycles: Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, & Defining Subcultures (University of Texas Press, 2011) and recently completed the anthology Multiplicities: Cycles, Sequels, Remakes and Reboots in Film & Television (University of Texas Press). She is currently working on a book project about MTV reality programming and youth identities. Her scholarship has appeared in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Jump Cut, Flow, Antenna, Salon and The New Yorker.