The Criterion Collection
Edward Baron Turk is a professor emeritus of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books on the performing arts include Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard University Press), Hollywood Diva:...
Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) is a filmmaker and programmer based in Southern California. He currently serves as director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program and is a cofounder of COUSIN, a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film.
D. A. Miller, who taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, is most recently the author of Hidden Hitchcock (University of Chicago Press) and Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD (Columbia University Press).
Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television writer and director who got her first professional break working for her mentor, Wim Wenders, on his movie Paris, Texas (1984). Her feature debut was Border Radio (1987), cowritten and codirected with...
Glen Helfand is an independent writer, curator, and educator. He is an associate professor at California College of the Arts.
Mark Danner has reported on war and politics for three decades, from Central America to Bosnia to Iraq. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and Bard College and is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote, Torture...
Kyung Hyun Kim is professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and director of the Critical Theory Emphasis at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coeditor of The Korean Popular Culture Reader and the author of Virtual Hallyu:...
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.
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.