Justin Wyatt is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Film/Media, and Journalism at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of The Virgin Suicides: Reverie, Sorrow and Young Love (Routledge) and the co-editor of Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream (Routledge). He is completing a manuscript on qualitative and quantitative market research methods in the media industries. He has published in the fields of media history, film marketing, and media industry studies.

Wyatt D. Phillips is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the English Department at Texas Tech University. His work primarily engages questions of the political economy of media production and circulation. His current book project considers the historical relationship between turn-of-the-century business culture and the significance of genre in early Hollywood. His publications include work on the economic structure and history of the American film industry, the rise of drive-in theaters, and Camp TV of the 1960s.