Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Journalism and Media, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist (Berghahn, 2010), Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema (Berghahn, 2008) and with Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie (Wallflower, 2006) and From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003). She is principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema .
John Orr is professor emeritus in the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Contemporary Cinema, The Art and Politics of Film, and Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema(Wallflower Press). Elzbieta Ostrowska is visiting professor of Polish studies at the University of Pittsburgh and is coeditor of Gender in Film and the Media. With John Orr, she is the coeditor of The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda: The Art of Irony and Defiance(Wallflower Press).