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Nessa Johnston is Lecturer in Screen Studies and Digital Media in the Department of Communications and Media, University of Liverpool, and co-investigator on the Leverhulme-funded research project Anonymous Creativity: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s. Her research and teaching interests include screen industries (contemporary and historical), cult media, sound and music in media, independent cinema, and subcultures. Her monograph The Commitments: Youth, Music and Authenticity in 1990s Ireland is published by Routledge. Jamie Sexton is an Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University. He is the author of the forthcoming British Musical Hauntology (Reaktion, 2025). Previous publications include Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema (co-edited with Ernest Mathijs, 2019). Elodie A. Roy is a media and material culture theorist with a specialism in the history of recorded sound. She is the author of Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter and Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove, as well as the co-editor of Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890-1945. Roy held research and teaching positions at the Glasgow School of Art, Humboldt University of Berlin, Newcastle University and Northumbria University, where she was the Research Fellow on the Leverhulme-funded research project 'Anonymous Creativity: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s' (2021-2023). |
