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Michael Lydon, a writer and musician, began reporting on pop music in the sixties. He is the author of the book Flashbacks. This piece originally appeared in the Criterion Collection’s 2002 edition of Monterey Pop.
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London, where he directs a research project on the history of the British Film Institute. He is the editor of The Oxford History of...
Molly Haskell is a critic and author whose books include From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies; Love and Other Infectious Diseases; Frankly, My Dear: “Gone with the Wind” Revisited; and Steven Spielberg: A Life in...
Terrence Rafferty is the author of The Thing Happens: Ten Years of Writing About the Movies. He has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Nation, GQ, and Sight and Sound, and taught at Columbia...
Dennis Perrin is the author of Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue, The Man Who Made Comedy Dangerous (Avon Books) and American Fan: Sports Mania and the Culture That Feeds It (Spike/HarperCollins).
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis is the author of To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema (1990), as well as numerous articles and anthology chapters on feminist theory, film, and cultural studies.
Marian Keane is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author (with William Rothman) of the forthcoming Stanley Cavell's The World Viewed: A Philosophical Perspective on Film (Wayne State University Press).
George Perry is the films editor for the Sunday Times, London, and the author of two books on Monty Python, among many others.
Filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey is the author of the groundbreaking 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." A Collection of her more recent writings has been published by the BFI as Fetishism and Curiosity (1996).
Alexander Sesonske was a film-studies professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Jean Renoir: The French Films, 1924–1939.