Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Director of the London Consortium. His books include The Eloquence of the Vulgar: Cinema, Language and Politics (1999), Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 (2004), T.S. Eliot (2006), and The Butcher Boy (2007). He has also produced feature films, television documentaries and installations, his most recent films are Derek (2008) and Ways of Listening (2012).
Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has written extensively on film and film theory. Her books include Fetishism and Curiosity (1996), Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006), Experimental British Television (edited with Jamie Sexton, 2007), and Visual and Other Pleasures (2nd edition, 2009). She has co-directed films, including Riddles of the Sphinx (1978) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Malatti (1980), as well as the documentary Disgraced Monuments (1996).
