Angela Prysthon is Professor of Film Studies at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and supervising theses and dissertations. She was Visiting Research Fellow in Film at the University of Southampton in 2012 and 2013.
She holds MPhil in Literary Theory (UFPE, 1993) and a PhD in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies (University of Nottingham, 1999), with the thesis "Peripheral Cosmopolitanisms. Aspects of Brazilian Postmodern Culture.” Among her publications, are the book Utopias da Frivolidade (Cesárea, 2014), articles in various journals such as Devires (UFMG), Revista da FAMECOS (PUCRS), Cinéma et Cie, La Furia Umana, and chapters in books like "O olhar feminino no cinema hispano-americano" (2015) e "Visualidades Hoje" (2013). She is the current president of SOCINE (Brazilian Film Studies Association).
Jonathan Rayner is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include Australian Cinema, auteur studies, genre films and the interactions of landscapes and moving images.
He is the author of The Films of Peter Weir (1998), Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000), The Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema (2007) and The Cinema of Michael Mann (2013). He is the co-editor of Cinema and Landscape (2010), Film Landscapes (2013), Mapping Cinematic Norths (2016) and Filmurbia (2017).
