Melvyn Stokes is Professor of Film History at University College London, UK. He is the author and editor of books including Charlot: How the French Discovered, Wrote About, Defended and Resurrected Charlie Chaplin (Oxford University Press, 2018); Cinéma et mémoire dans le cinéma Anglophone/Memory in-of English-speaking Cinema, ed. (with Z. Saleh) (Michel Houdiard, 2014); American History through Hollywood Film (Bloomsbury, December 2013); Gilda (BFI Film Classics, 2010); Cinéma et histoire/Cinema and History, ed. (with G. Menegaldo) (Michel Houdiard, 2008); D.W. Griffith’s "The Birth of a Nation" A History of "the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time" (Oxford University Press, 2007); Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema, ed. (with R. Maltby and R. C. Allen) (University of Exeter Press, 2007); and Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange, ed. (with R. Maltby) (British Film Institute, 2004).
Matthew Jones is Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Television History, De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain (Bloomsbury, 2017). Emma Pett is Lecturer in Film Consumption at the University of East Anglia, UK. She has published articles in journals including The Journal of British Cinema and Television and in edited books.