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Phillip Lopate’s latest book is A Mother’s Tale. He has written extensively on the movies for the Criterion Collection, Film Comment, Cineaste, and the New York Times and is a professor at Columbia University.
Chris Fujiwara is the author or editor of several books on film, including Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, and Jerry Lewis. He is currently working on a...
A staff writer at the New Yorker, Hilton Als won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and is the author of The Women, White Girls, and My Pinup: A Paean to Prince. He teaches in the English department at the...
Toby Miller teaches Cinema Studies at New York University and is the author of many books on culture. He is the editor of Television & New Media.
Diane Jacobs is the author of Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges.
Armond White’s film criticism has been published internationally. His collected pop culture criticism appears in the book The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World.
Michael Atkinson writes regularly for the Village Voice and Sight and Sound, and teaches at Long Island University. His books include Exile Cinema (SUNY Press) and Blue Velvet (British Film Institute), which was reissued in a new edition in 2021.
Kent Jones is a filmmaker and writer. His films include the documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut and the fiction features Diane and Late Fame. He is the author of several books of criticism.
One of the first feminist film theorists, Claire Johnston (1940–1987) was the author of Notes on Women's Cinema (1973).
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.