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Sam McPheeters is the author of The Loom of Ruin. He lives in Pomona, California.

Steve Erickson is the author of Shadowbahn, Zeroville, and eight other novels that have been translated into a dozen languages. He is the chair of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches literature and film.

Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces, The Shape of Things to Come, and The Manchurian Candidate in the BFI Film Classics series. With Werner Sollors, he is the editor of A New Literary History of America (Harvard, 2009)....

Noah Isenberg is the author, most recently, of Detour, the editor of Weimar Cinema, and is currently finishing a critical biography of Edgar G. Ulmer for the University of California Press. He directs the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang...

B. Ruby Rich is professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the former editor in chief of the journal Film Quarterly. She is the author of New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut (2013) and Chick Flicks: Theories...

Audie Bock is the author of Japanese Film Directors and Mikio Naruse: A Master of the Japanese Cinema, as well as the translator of Akira Kurosawa’s memoir, Something Like an Autobiography. She has taught Japanese cinema at colleges and universities...

Marsha Kinder, professor emerita of critical studies at the University of Southern California, is the author of Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain and the editor of Refiguring Spain, Luis Buñuel’s “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,”...

Donald Richie has written widely on Japanese film and is the author of the seminal book The Films of Akira Kurosawa (University of California, 1965; revised 1998).

Leonard Leff, emeritus professor of English at Oklahoma State University is the author of three books, including Hitchcock and Selznick (University of California Press, 1999). His essay on African Americans and Gone With the Wind appears in The Best American...

Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life, Evidence, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and I Heard Her Call My Name.