Heather Hendershot

Heather Hendershot is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at Northwestern University. She is the editor of Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids and the author of: Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip; Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture; What’s Fair on the Air? Cold War Right Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest; Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line; and When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. She also researches Hollywood cinema of the 1950s–1970s, and has published research on Roger Corman, Dog Day Afternoon, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon trilogy.