Justus Nieland is professor of English at Michigan State University, where he teaches in the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public ...view moreJustus Nieland is professor of English at Michigan State University, where he teaches in the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life (2008), David Lynch (2012), Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era (2020), and Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization (2009), cowritten with Jennifer Fay. He is also coeditor of the Contemporary Film Directors book series at the University of Illinois Press.view less