Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane ’74 is a professor of film and media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her latest book studies the use of scale in cinema, particularly the close-up—and how such techniques can be used to impact the viewer’s sense of place, space, and orientation.
The War That Made the Roman Empire Barry Strauss ’74—a professor of history and classics on the Hill— takes on what he describes as one of history’s most important but little-known wars: the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.