About the Author

Will Straw

Will Straw is Professor in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University in Montreal.  A former President of the Canadian Communications Association, Straw is the author of Cyanide and Sin:  Visualizing Crime in 50s America, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock.   Professor Straw is the author of over 70 articles on film, popular music, print culture, urban life and Canadian culture.  He is the winner of the David Thomson Award for Graduate Teaching and Supervision.  His current research centres on tabloid newspaper publishing in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, and on the scandalous periodical Broadway Brevities.  Straw maintains a website devoted to Print Culture and Urban Visuality, based on his collection of city-based magazines and newspapers.

Email: william.straw@mcgill.ca