A Dictionary of Film Studies

Annette Kuhn FBA is Professor and Research Fellow in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She has taught numerous university and adult education courses in Film Studies and Visual Culture in both the UK and overseas. She has authored, edited, and contributed to a wide range of works within Film Studies, including The Women's Companion to International Film (1989), BFI screenonline, An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (2002), Screening World Cinema: A Screen Reader (with Catherine Grant, 2006), Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience (2013), and the Women Film Pioneers Project. She was an editor of the OUP journal Screen for more than thirty years. Guy Westwell is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He has taught in various higher education institutions across a range of courses on film history, film theory, and film industry. He is a recipient of the Draper's Award for Teaching Excellence, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, editor of the student writing project website Mapping Contemporary Cinema, and author of War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line (2006) and Parallel Lines: 9/11 and American Film (2014).