Nathan Abrams is a professor of film, as well as thelead director for the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studiesat Bangor University in Wales.He is a founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, and his most recent books include Kubrick: An Odyssey (Pegasus Books, 2024), Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers University Press, 2018), as well as the edited collections Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece (Liverpool University Press, 2023), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Jeremi Szaniawski is Associate Professor of comparative literature and film studies, and the Amesbury Professor of Polish Language and Culture in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the editor of After Kubrick: A Filmmaker's Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2020), and of the online dossier "The Shining at 40" (Senses of Cinema, 2020), as well as the co-editor, among others, of Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2022), and Gender, Power, and Identity in The Films of Stanley Kubrick (Routledge, 2023).