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Film journalist Craigh Barboza teaches at New York University and has written for Cineaste, Film Comment, and the Hollywood Reporter. His book John Singleton: Interviews, a study of the director’s work, is part of the series Conversations with Filmmakers (University...

Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic for New York magazine’s site Vulture who also writes about film and pop culture, with particular interests in feminism, masculinity, labor and class, and Middle Eastern and Muslim representation.

Ehsan Khoshbakht is the codirector of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy. An architect by training, he curates films around the world and is also a filmmaker (Celluloid Underground, Filmfarsi). His most recent book as writer and editor is The...

Jason Wood is the executive director of public programs and audiences at the British Film Institute. A widely published author on cinema and popular culture, he has written on and interviewed Atom Egoyan numerous times. He is also the codirector,...

Walter Chaw is the senior film critic for FilmFreakCentral.net, with bylines in the New York Times, LA Weekly, the New York Post’s Decider.com, and NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour. His book on the films of Walter Hill is due in...

Aisha Harris is a critic and a cohost of National Public Radio’s podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. She is the author of the essay collection Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me.

Grady Hendrix is the cofounder of Subway Cinema and the New York Asian Film Festival, as well as the author, most recently, of These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (with Chris Poggiali).

Donna Bowman is a theologian and professor in the Norbert O. Schedler Honors College at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author and editor of several books on theology, including The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Being Human. Her...

Carol Gilligan is best known for In a Different Voice, “the little book that started a revolution.” She was the Graham Professor of Gender Studies at Harvard and is now University Professor at New York University School of Law. Her...

Patricia White’s books include Women’s Cinema, World Cinema; Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability; and, with Timothy Corrigan, The Film Experience. She is Centennial Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College.