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Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Master and Brooklyn, and two collections of stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and...

Gerard Jones was once a writer of comics and animation. More recently, he has written Men of Tomorrow, a cultural history of American comics, and Killing Monsters, a defense of some of the scarier elements of popular culture, both from...

Graham Reznick is a director and sound designer based in Brooklyn. His hallucinatory 2008 horror feature I Can See You received rave reviews in the New York Times, Variety, and the Village Voice. Learn more about Reznick’s work at aphasiafilms.com.

Francis J. Murphy, a specialist in the history of modern France, taught at Boston College for more than thirty years. Among his many publications are several articles and two books concerning Père Jacques, including a biography, Père Jacques: Resplendent in...

Writer, filmmaker, and broadcaster Kevin Jackson (1955–2021) was the author or editor of more than thirty books. He contributed regularly to Sight and Sound, the Guardian, and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review, and his documentary work included coproducing Humphrey Jennings:...

Writer-director Michael Lennick’s Discovery Channel series Rocket Science explores the real history of humanity’s first steps into space though he’s very fond of most of the fictional versions too. Find out more at foolishearthling.com.

John Simon has written for more than fifty years on theater, film, literature, music, and the fine arts for such publications as the Hudson Review, the New Leader, the New Criterion, the National Review, New York magazine, the New York...

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...

Tom Gunning is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press, 1991) and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and...

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).