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David Chute is a Los Angeles-based writer with a special interest in Asian popular culture.
Michael Raine teaches Japanese cinema and other courses in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Program in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He has published on various aspects of Japanese cinema...
William Paul, a professor of film and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Ernst Lubitsch’s American Comedy; Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy; and When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution...
James Quandt is a frequent contributor to Artforum and has published several articles in the New York Review of Books and essays in various anthologies, including on Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Nagisa Oshima, New French Extremity,...
Paul Coates is a professor emeritus of film studies at Western University, Ontario. Previously, he taught at Georgia, McGill, and Aberdeen, and his books include The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon’s Gaze (1991), Lucid Dreams: The Cinema...
Philip Kemp is a film critic and historian, and a regular contributor to Sight and Sound.
Tony Rayns is a London-based critic with a special interest in the film cultures of East Asia. He has been awarded the Kawakita Prize (2004) and the Foreign Ministry of Japan’s Commendation (2008) for services to Japanese cinema. His books...
Ginette Vincendeau is a professor of film studies at King’s College London. She has written widely on popular French cinema and is co–chief general editor of French Screen Studies.
David Kalat is a film historian who has been in love with the fantastique since his misspent childhood. He has written several books, including The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse and, most recently, Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History...
Tim Lucas is a novelist, critic, biographer, monographer, and lyricist, as well as the former editor and copublisher of the influential Video Watchdog magazine. The only journalist granted full access to the set of Videodrome, he is now the audio...