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Paul Thomas is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and American Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. A contributing editor of Film Quarterly, he is currently at work on a critical biography of Jean Renoir.
A. S. Hamrah’s work has appeared in a number of publications, including n+1, Bookforum, and Harper’s. A collection of his work, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002–2018 (n+1 Books), was called “essential reading” by the Nation and “form-bending, disobedient”...
Mark Kermode is a film critic and broadcaster who works for the BBC, the Observer, and Sight & Sound.
Thomas Beard is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, and a Programmer at Large for Film at Lincoln Center.
Tony Pipolo writes extensively on film. He is the author of the award-winning Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film and is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York.
Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan is a New York–based film writer and curator, and U.S. programmer and selection committee member of the Venice Film Festival. From 2003 to 2006, she was the codirector of the Torino Film Festival. Among her books are...
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.
Laura Hubner is program director for BA (Hons) Film Studies at the University of Winchester in England. She is the author of The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness, the editor of Valuing Films: Shifting Perceptions of...
Charles Ramírez Berg is a professor of film studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written extensively on film history, Latinos in U.S. film, Mexican cinema, and narratology. His most recent book is The Classical Mexican Cinema:...