Andrew Spicer is Reader in Cultural History at the
University of the West of England, UK. His principal research
interests lie in film and cultural history, including genre,
stardom and constructions of masculinity, British cinema, and the
role of producers and screenwriters in film-making. He has
published widely on all these topics, including Typical Men
(2003) and Sydney Box (2006), and three volumes on film
noir: Film Noir (2002), European Film Noir (2007),
and the Historical Dictionary of Film Noir (2010). He is
currently co-editing a volume about film producers, and writing a
study of Sean Connery.

Helen Hanson is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the
University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests cover adaptation,
gender and genre, film history, film style and technology, with a
particular focus on the history of Hollywood. She has written
articles and chapters on these topics, and has authored
Hollywood Heroines: Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film
(2007) and co-edited The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories,
Contexts (2010). She also has a forthcoming book on the
evolution of sound technology, sound craft and film style in
Hollywood cinema from 1931-1950.