Peter C. Pugsley is Associate Professor in Media at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema (2015, Routledge) and Tradition,Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema (2013, Routledge). He has published on the cinemas of China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and India, and on television in Singapore and China.

Jessica Balanzategui is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Screen Studies and a Chief Investigator for the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research examines screen genres across film, television and digital media for and about children; horror and Gothic media; and the impact of technological and industrial change on entertainment cultures and aesthetics. Jessica’s books include The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema (Amsterdam UP, 2018) and edited collections published by Routledge, Iowa and Amsterdam UP. She is the founding editor of Amsterdam University Press’ book series, Horror and Gothic Media Cultures, and an editor of Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media.

Davinia Thornley is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has written extensively on national cinemas, adaptation, indigenous films, film festivals, and audience/reception studies. She is author of a book on cinema and cross-cultural collaboration, editor of an anthology on true event adaptation, and is currently working on a collection about childfree people in academic and activist contexts. Her research has been published in Film Criticism, Literature/Film Quarterly, European Journal of Cultural Studies, National Identities, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Studies in Australasian Cinema, among others.

Claire Henry is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production at Massey University in Wellington. Her publications include a forthcoming BFI Film Classics title on Eraserhead (Bloomsbury/British Film Institute, 2023), Screening the Posthuman (co-authored with Missy Molloy and Pansy Duncan, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2022), Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and journal articles in Journal of Digital Media & Policy, Senses of Cinema, Porn Studies, Open Cultural Studies, Studies in European Cinema, and Cine-Excess.

Pansy Duncan is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University in Auckland. Her articles have been published in a number of venues, including Screen, JCMS, PMLA, Feminist Media Studies, and Cultural Critique, and she is the author or co-author of two books: a 2016 monograph entitled The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film (Routledge), and, with Missy Molloy and Claire Henry, Screening the Posthuman (Oxford), forthcoming in 2022. Current book projects include an eco-materialist counter-history of cinematic form, provisionally entitled A Natural History of Film Form, which is funded by a Marsden grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a co-edited collection on the history, politics and aesthetics of film stock, with Alice Lovejoy and Kirsty Dootson.

Max Bledstein is a PhD student and tutor in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales. His work has appeared in Iranian Studies, Overland, Inks, The New Americanist, and Jeunesse. He has taught courses in contemporary literature, visual media, and composition at the University of Winnipeg and Brandon University. His thesis examines appropriations from Western genre films in contemporary Iranian cinema. He won the 2021 Best Graduate Student Essay awards from the Horror Studies and Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Groups, both of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.