Betty Kaklamanidou is a Fulbright scholar and Assistant Professor in Film and Television History and Theory at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the author of The ‘Disguised’ Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood: A Genre’s Construction (2016), Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism: The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com (2013) and two books in Greek on adaptation theory and the history of the Hollywood rom com. Betty is also the co-editor of Politics and Politicians in Contemporary U.S. Television (2016),The Millennials on Film and Television (2014), HBO’s “Girls” (2014), and The 21st Century Superhero (2010). She is currently co-editing a collection on post-2008 European Cinema and has just completed a monograph on Easy A (2018, forthcoming). Betty’s articles have appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, Celebrity Studies and The Journal of Popular Romance Studies.