Jerold J. Abrams is associate professor of philosophy at Creighton University. His essays on film have appeared in such books as James Bond and Philosophy, Star Wars and Philosophy, and The Philosophy of Film Noir. He is also the editor of The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick.
Richard Allen is Professor and Chair of the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. Along with Sidney Gottlieb, he edits the Hitchcock Annual. Allen is the author of many books on film and film theory, including Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony.
Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Media Studies and Digital Culture at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. He has edited Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews and Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews, and is the co-editor (with Richard Allen) of the Hitchcock Annual.
Nicholas Haeffner is Senior Lecturer in Communications at London Metropolitan University. He is author of Alfred Hitchcock (Pearson Education, 2005) and is currently co-curator of a traveling new media exhibition featuring films, installations, and games inspired by Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Jennifer L. Jenkins teaches American literature, film history, and archival studies at the University of Arizona. Her study Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Film Service and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest is forthcoming from University of Arizona Press.
Thomas Leitch is Professor of English at the University of Delaware, specializing in film and cultural theory. Among his many books are Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games, The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock, and Crime Films. Recently, he edited along with Leland Poague A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock.
Brian McFarlane, an Honorary Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, is the author of many articles on film and literature, and of books including New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film (Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1992), Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation (Clarendon, Oxford University Press, 1996), (as compiler, editor, and chief author) The Encyclopedia of British Film (Methuen/BFI, 2003, 3rd ed.), Great Expectations: Screen Adaptations (A&C Black/Norton, 2007) and (with Deane Williams) Michael Winterbottom (Manchester University Press, 2009).
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also directs the film studies program. Palmer is the author, editor, or co-editor of more than fifty books and a hundred book chapters and journal articles, including two volumes on film noir.
Graham Petrie is a British film critic and novelist living in Canada and teaching film at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Among his many books on film are studies of Francois Truffaut, Andrei Tarkovsky, and European directors working in the United States.
Homer B. Pettey teaches literature and film at the University of Arizona. His recent works include Film Noir and International Noir (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), co-edited with R. Barton Palmer. He is General/Founding Editor for two book series at Edinburgh University Press: Global Film Studios and International Film Stars.
Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University and the author of The Economist, Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock’s America, The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect, Tomorrow, The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory, Edith Valmaine, Johnny Depp Starts Here, Savage Time, An Eye for Hitchcock, and Magia d’Amore. He has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice, A Family Affair: Cinema Calls Home, City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination, and Cinema and Modernity. He is editor of the “Techniques of the Moving Image” series at Rutgers University Press and of the “Horizons of Cinema” series at State University of New York Press, as well as co-editor, with Lester D. Friedman and Adrienne L. McLean, respectively, of the “Screen Decades” and “Star Decades” series at Rutgers.
Steven M. Sanders is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bridgewater State University. His work on topics in film has appeared in The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese (2009), Film Noir: The Directors (2012), A Companion to Film Noir (2013), Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema (2014), and Michael Mann Cinema and Television: Interviews 1980–2012, which he co-edited with R. Barton Palmer. He is completing a novel in which events in the lives of seventy major philosophers form the backdrop of a madman’s memoir.
Neil Sinyard is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of twenty-five books on the cinema, including studies of directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Clayton, and Richard Lester. He is currently writing a book on the films of George Stevens.
George Toles, Distinguished Professor and Film Chair in the department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and collaborator on screenplays with Guy Maddin.
Alan Woolfolk is Provost of Flagler College. He has written extensively on contemporary culture, public intellectuals, and in recent years, film, including a preface to the second edition of R. Barton Palmer’s Hollywood’s Dark Cinema and a chapter on Godard in The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film. Woolfolk has twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and is an advisory editor for Society.