This stirring discussion featured Frank Pierson, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, English Professor Leo Braudy (author of The Frenzy of Renown), Cinema Professor Dana Polan (author of Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative and the American Cinema), History Professor Steven J. Ross (author of the forthcoming Hollywood Left and Right: Movie Stars and Politics), and Nancy Snow, Senior Fellow at USC’s Center for Public Diplomacy.