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Kara Keeling is a professor of cinema and media studies and of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of two books: The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image...
Clyde Folley is a video editor at the Criterion Collection and has curated several collections on the Criterion Channel including ’80s Horror and VHS Forever. He is also the editor of Videoheaven (2025).
Francisco Goldman is the author of the novel Monkey Boy, a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Matthew B. Karush is a professor of history at George Mason University. He is a specialist in modern Argentine history and the author of several books, including Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music (Duke University Press,...
Shai Heredia is a filmmaker, a curator, and the founder of Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. Her programs and award-winning films have been exhibited worldwide, and she is on the curatorial team of the Berlinale Forum...
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...
Akin Adeṣọkan is the author of Roots in the Sky, a novel, and Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics. He teaches cinema and comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington.
J. J. Murphy is a professor emeritus of film at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of four major books on independent cinema, including Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay (Columbia University Press, 2019) and The...
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.