Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His many books include
Film Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2000),
Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (with Ella Shohat, 1994), and
Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (1989). With Toby Miller, he is the editor of
Film and Theory (Blackwell, 2000) and
The Blackwell Companion to Film Theory (2000).
Alessandra Raengo is finishing her PhD in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University, where she occasionally teaches. Her dissertation explores race and vernacular social criticism in American culture between 1945 and 1968. Among her publications are The Birth of Film Genres (1999) and The Bounds of Representation (2000), both multilingual volumes edited with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi.