Martin F. Norden (1951–2023) taught film history and screenwriting as professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has more than one hundred publications to his credit, including The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies; ReFocus: The Films of Paul Leni; and Lois Weber: Interviews (published by University Press of Mississippi). He presented his film research at dozens of professional conferences across North America and Europe. And he served as a consultant on the documentary films CinemAbility and Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.
