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Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a contributing editor of Cineaste. His books include American Film and Society Since 1945 (coauthored with Albert Auster)...
Gilberto Perez, who died in January 2015, held the Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College and was the author of The Material Ghost.
Michael Töteberg is the author of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2002) and has edited, in Germany, three volumes of Fassbinder’s screenplays as well as Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich’s scripts for Fassbinder’s BRD trilogy: The Marriage of Maria...
Héctor Tobar is the author of the novel The Tattooed Soldier and the nonfiction book Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States.
Lisa Dombrowski is the author of The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! and the editor of Kazan Revisited. She has written for the New York Times, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Film History, and the Velvet...
Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh. His most recent film production is The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2015). His collection Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature was...
Mark Rappaport is a filmmaker and writer. His films include Rock Hudson’s Home Movies and From the Journals of Jean Seberg. He is a regular contributor to the French film magazine Trafic, edited by Raymond Bellour. A collection of his...
Geoffrey O’Brien’s books include The Phantom Empire; Sonata for Jukebox; The Fall of the House of Walworth; Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film, 2002–2012; Where Did Poetry Come From: Some Early Encounters; and Arabian Nights of 1934.
Glenn Kenny writes film reviews for the New York Times and RogerEbert.com, and has contributed to the Criterion Collection website. He is the author of Made Men: The Story of “Goodfellas” (Hanover Square Press, 2020).
Thomas Rimer is a professor of Japanese Literature and Theater at the University of Pittsburgh and has been published widely on various aspects of Japanese theater, literature, and cultural history.