Charles Wolfe’s research and teaching interests include film history and theory; historiography; American cinema and cultural history; documentary film and photography; comedy; adaptation; and the history of film sound. He is the author of two books on the films of director Frank Capra and has published widely on various aspects of the history of commercial, independent, and documentary filmmaking in the U.S. With Edward Branigan, he co-edits the American Film Institute’s Film Reader Series, which to date has published 39 volumes of new critical essays on topics of contemporary concern in film, television, and digital media studies. Viewed in composite, the AFI Film Reader Series has charted new paradigms for scholarly inquiry in cinema and media studies over the past three decades.